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

Jungfrauen Arbeit, Kunst, und Fleiss

Paul Decker the Younger

An Antiquarian

Frederick George Byron

Shakespeare – Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice

James Gillray

The Summer Shower, or Mademoiselle Par, a Pluye

George Townley Stubbs

Study, Head of a Boy

Therèse Éléonore (Hemery) Lingée

To the Genius of Franklin

Marguerite Gérard

Vaux-hall

Thomas Rowlandson

Title Page, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Monsieur de St. George

William Ward

Time Smoking a Picture

William Hogarth

An Election Entertainment, Plate I: Four Prints of an Election

William Hogarth

To the Genius of Franklin

Jean Honoré Fragonard

Plate 21 from "Los Caprichos": How they pluck her! (¡Qual la descañonan!)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Plate 40 from "Los Caprichos": Of what ill will he die? (De que mal morira?)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Plate 19 from "Los Caprichos": All will fall (Todos Caerán)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Plate 20 from "Los Caprichos": There they go plucked (i.e. fleeced) (Ya van desplumados)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Plate 68 from "Los Caprichos": Pretty teacher! (Linda maestra!)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Allegory of Europe, from the Four Continents

Johann Justin Preissler

All Fours

Henry William Bunbury

Two Boys Sleeping Besides a Tree

Marie Jeanne Boucher

Genie de la Poësie

Madame la Marquise de Pompadour

Genie de la Musique

François Boucher

A Sketch from Nature

Thomas Rowlandson

Wit's Last Stake, or the Cobbling Voters and Abject Canvassers

Thomas Rowlandson

The Two Patriotic Duchesses on Their Canvass

Thomas Rowlandson

Kings Place, or a View of M [Fox's] Best Friends

Thomas Rowlandson

The Devonshire, or Most Approved Method of Securing Votes

Thomas Rowlandson

A Touch on the Times

Thomas Rowlandson

Smithfield Sharpers, or the Countryman Defrauded

Thomas Rowlandson

Congressional Pugilists

Anonymous, American, 18th century

The Present State of Great Britain

James Phillips

A New Method of Maracrony Making as Practised at Boston in North America

Carington Bowles I

The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering

R. Sayer and J. Bennett

A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina

Philip Dawe

The Bostonians in Distress

Philip Dawe

The Alternative of Williams-Burg

Philip Dawe

Goody Bull or the Second Part of the Repeal

Anonymous, British, 18th century

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Paul Sandwich [pseudonym]

The American Rattle Snake

William Richardson

Proclamation of Peace

William Wells

The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame-Stamp

Carington Bowles I

The Tea-Tax-Tempest, or Old Time with his Magick Lanthern

William Humphrey

Orage causé par l'Impôt sur le Thé en Amérique

Anonymous, French, early 19th century

Het Tegenwoordig Veward Europa [Europe in Her Present Disordered State]

Anonymous, Dutch, 18th century

The Commissioners

Matthew Darly

The Ballance [sic] of Power

R. S.

Va de Bon Coeur; Dédié aux Milords de l'Amirauté Anglaise par un Membre de Congrès Américain

Richard Purcell

State of the English Nation

W. M. Jackson

Mal Lui Veut Mal Lui Tourne Dit Le Bonne Homme Richard

Anonymous, French, 18th century

State of the English Nation [Toestand der Engelsche Natie]

Anonymous, Dutch, 18th century

A Picturesque View of the State of the Nation for February 1778

Anonymous, British, 18th century

Amusement for John Bull & His Cousin Paddy, or, the Gambols of the American Buffalo, in St. James's Street

John Fielding

The American Rifle Men

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Junto in a Bowl Dish

William Richardson

Count de Rochambeau, French General of the Land Forces in America Reviewing the French Troops

Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau

La Grand Bretagne Mutilé; Das Verstümelte Britanien [Great Britain Mulitated]

Anonymous, Dutch, 18th century

The Reply: A Complimentory [sic] Hieroglyphic Epistle from the Honorable Henry Laurens to Lord George Gordon

Henry Laurens

The Reconciliation Between Britannia and Her Daughter America

Thomas Colley

The Royal Hunt, or a Prospect of the Year 1782: The Temple of Fame, formerly the Wonder of the World, but now in Ruins

R. Owen

Yorktown

Anonymous, Dutch, 18th century