18th century public domain art

Artworks created between 1701 and 1800, drawn from every collection indexed here. Free to download, with colour palettes and print sizes measured from each file.

Works in 18th century public domain art

Design for the painting, Mars, Venus & Cupid for the Dining Room at Kirtlington Park, Oxfordshire

John Sanderson

Female Figure Seated Beside an Urn

Angelica Kauffmann

Sculptor at Work on a Colossal Statue

Carl August Ehrensvärd

Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Design for Ceiling: Apollo and the Hours

Angelica Kauffmann

Caricature of Engravers "à la Grecque"

Jean Charles Delafosse

Design for an English Political Satire

Hubert François Gravelot

Comtesse Turpin de Crissé

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Dice Players in a Venetian Square

Francesco Guardi

Angel of the Divine Presence Bringing Eve to Adam (The Creation of Eve: "And She Shall be Called Woman) (recto); Sketch for the same (verso)

William Blake

The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins

William Blake

Design for a Secretary

Anonymous, French, 18th century

The Saw-Setter

Thomas Rowlandson

A Goose and a Gander with their Goslings Honking in Alarm as Two Foxes with their Cubs Emerge from the Rushes

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

Caricature of a Drunken Debauch

Anonymous, British, 19th century

Mr. Alexander Campbell, Organist, Conducting Three Braying Asses

John Kay

Study for "A charm for democracy, reviewed, analyzed, and destroyed January 1, 1799" (recto and verso)

Thomas Rowlandson

An Irish Howl

Thomas Rowlandson

The Q A loaded with the spoils of India and Britain, March 6, 1788

Thomas Rowlandson

Design for the Dining Room at Kirtlington Park, Oxfordshire

John Sanderson

Mountainous Landscape with a Brook

Franz Kobell

Austrian Soldiers

Wilhelm von Kobell

A Waterfall in a Forest at Langhennersdorf

Christoph Nathe

The Aller Church in Sønderjyllands Amt (Denmark), seen from the North

Johan Christian Dahl

The American Rattlesnake Presenting Monsieur his Ally [sic] a Dish of Frogs

J. Barrow

The Tea-Tax-Tempest (The Oracle)

John Dixon

Portrait of Petronella Cornelia Rømeling

Jens Jørgensen Juel

Study of a Standing Woman

Angelica Kauffmann

Woman in Turkish Dress, Seated on a Sofa

Jean Etienne Liotard

A Magnificent Pavilion by the Lagoon (recto); The Grand Canal, with the Rialto Bridge from the South (verso)

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Les fêtes vénitiennes

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

Figure Studies

Francesco Guardi

Study for an Inkstand

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Saint Luke Painting the Virgin

Georg Anton Urlaub

Costume Armor and Sword in the Classical Style

Hallé

Bust Portrait of a Man with a Beard

Gilles-Antoine Demarteau

View of Lake Como

Francis Towne

View of Lake Como with Monte Leoni

Francis Towne

A Counselor's Opinion After He Had Retired From Practice

Thomas Rowlandson

婦人手業操鏡|A Woman Weaving, Seated at a Hand Loom

Kitagawa Utamaro

実競色乃美名家見　三浦屋小紫　白井権八|The Lovers Miura-ya Komurasaki and Shirai Gonpachi.

Kitagawa Utamaro

鈴木春信画　若水を汲む男女|Drawing the First Water of the New Year

Suzuki Harunobu

東洲斎写楽画 初代市川男女蔵の奴一平　『恋女房染分手綱』|Ichikawa Omezō I in the Role of Yakko Ippei from the Play "Koinyōbō somewake tazuna"

Tōshūsai Sharaku

Print

Tōshūsai Sharaku

江戸の花　娘浄瑠璃|A Woman Playing with a Young Boy

Kitagawa Utamaro

名君　閨中の粧ひ|The Oiran Yoso-oi Seated at Her Toilet

Kitagawa Utamaro

Print

Tōshūsai Sharaku

東洲斎写楽画 三世坂田半五郎の藤川水右衛門 『花菖蒲文禄曽我』|Sakata Hangorō III as Fujikawa Mizuemon in the Play "Hana Ayame Bunroku Soga"

Tōshūsai Sharaku

東洲斎写楽画 四代岩井半四郎の重の井 『恋女房染分手綱』|Iwai Hanshirō IV as Shigenoi in the Play "Koinyōbō Somewake Tazuna"

Tōshūsai Sharaku

三代目市川高麗蔵の志賀大七|Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Komazō III as Shiga Daishichi in the Play A Medley of Tales of Revenge (Katakiuchi noriaibanashi)

Tōshūsai Sharaku

東洲斎写楽画 「市川鰕蔵」竹村定之進 『恋女房染分手綱』|Ichikawa Ebizō IV as Takemura Sadanojō in the Play Koinyōbō Somewake Tazuna

Tōshūsai Sharaku

喜多川歌麿画　「青楼仁和嘉女芸者　茶せん売　黒木売　さいもん」|Three Niwaka Performers, Chasenuri, Kurokiri, and Saimon (Tea-whisk Seller, Firewood Seller, Shrine Festival Perfomer), from the “Geisha of the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival” (Seiro Niwaka Onna Geisha)

Kitagawa Utamaro

東洲斎写楽画　三代目大谷鬼次の奴江戸兵衛|Kabuki Actor Ōtani Oniji III as Yakko Edobei

Tōshūsai Sharaku

東洲斎写楽画 二世坂東三津五郎の石井源蔵 『花菖蒲文禄曽我』|Bandō Mitsugorō II as Ishii Genzō in the Play "Hana-ayame Bunroku Soga"

Tōshūsai Sharaku

市川鰕蔵の竹村定之進|Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebizō (Ichikawa Danjūrō V) in the play The Colored Reins of a Loving Wife (Koi nyōbō somewake tazuna)

Tōshūsai Sharaku

Woodblock print

Tōshūsai Sharaku

東洲斎写楽画 尾上松助の松下酒之進 『敵討乗合話』|Onoe Matsusuke I as Matsushita Mikinojō in the Play "Katakiuchi noriyaibanashi"

Tōshūsai Sharaku

八代目守田勘弥の鴬の次郎作|Kabuki Actor Morita Kan’ya VIII as the Palanquin-Bearer in the Play A Medley of Tales of Revenge (Katakiuchi noriaibanashi)

Tōshūsai Sharaku

東洲斎写楽画 初世中島和田右衛門のぼうだら長左衛門と初世中村此蔵の船宿かな川やの権 『敵討乗合話』|Nakajima Wadaemon and Nakamura Konozō as Bōdara no Chōzaemon and Kanagawaya no Gon in the Play "Katakiuchi noriyaibanashi"

Tōshūsai Sharaku

東洲斎写楽画　 三代目坂東彦三郎の帯屋長右衛門と四代目岩井半四郎の信濃 屋お半 『二本松陸奥生長』|Bandō Hikosaburō III in the Role of Obiya Chōemon and Iwai Hanshiro IV in the Role of Shinanoya Ohan, from the Play “Nihonmatsu Michinoku sodachi”

Tōshūsai Sharaku