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

The Able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Whitehall Pump

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Colossus of the North; or the Striding Boreas

Anonymous, British, 18th century

Le Général Burgoyne à Saratoga, le 17 Octobre, 1777; and Le Général Cornwallis à Yorck, le 19 Octobre, 1781

Anonymous, French, 18th century

Common-Wealth, The Colossus

Thomas Ewart

Bunkers Hill, or the Blessed Effects of Family Quarrels

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Political Cartoon, for the Year 1775

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Council of Rulers & the Elders Against the Tribe of ye Americanites

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Statue, or the Adoration of the Wise Men of the West

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame Stamp

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Colonies Reduced; Its Companion

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Parricide, a Sketch of Modern Patriotism

Anonymous, British, 18th century

News from America, or the Patriots in the Dumps

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Bottomless-Pitt

James Gillray

The Esplanade

James Gillray

"Improvement in Weights and Measures"; or, Sir John Seeclear Discovering Ye Ballance of Ye British Flag

James Gillray

Modern Grace; - or the Operatical Finale to the Ballet of Alonzo e Caro

James Gillray

The Reception of the Diplomatique and his Suite at the Court of Pekin

James Gillray

The Zenith of French Glory; - the Pinnacle of Liberty

James Gillray

"Two Pair of Portraits" presented to all the unbiased Electors of Great Britain" by John Horne Tooke

James Gillray

Out of Fits, or the Recovery to the Satisfaction of All Parties

S. W. Fores

Top and Tail

Mr. Perwig

The Farm Yard

Henry Kingsbury

The Muff

Henry Kingsbury

Concerto Spirituale

James Bretherton

Pizzaro a New Play or the Drury-Lane Masquerade

S. W. Fores

Miss Prattle Consulting Doctor Double Fee about her Pantheon Head Dress

Carington Bowles I

Frontispiece to the 2nd Edition of Lord St[anhop]e's Observations on Mr. Pitt's Plan of Finance

James Sayers

Cicero in Catilinam

James Sayers

Razor's Levée, or Ye Heads of a New Wig Ad[ministration] on a Broad Bottom

James Sayers

A Hail Storm

Henry William Bunbury

French Liberty – British Slavery

Hannah Humphrey

Substitutes for Bread;–or–Right Honorables, Saving the Loaves, & Dividing the Fishes

Hannah Humphrey

Temperance Enjoying a Frugal Meal

Hannah Humphrey

The Atlas of the Landed Interest

James Sayers

Sr. Hudibras, His Passing Worth, The Manner How He Sally'd Forth": Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 2

Philip Overton

The Punishment Inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver

William Hogarth

The Five Orders of Periwigs

William Hogarth

Great Cry and Little Wool

Thomas Rowlandson

The Departure

Thomas Rowlandson

Britannia Roused, or the Coalition Monsters Destroyed

Thomas Rowlandson

The Incurable

Thomas Rowlandson

Billy Lackbeard and Charley Blackbeard playing at Football

Thomas Rowlandson

The Infant Hercules

Thomas Rowlandson

The Apostate Jack Robinson, The Political Rat Catcher–N.B. Rats Taken Alive!

Thomas Rowlandson

The Parachute or a Sage Lady's Second Experiment

Thomas Rowlandson

The Surprising Irish Giant of St. James's Street

Thomas Rowlandson

The Fall of Achilles

Thomas Rowlandson

The Political Hydra

Thomas Rowlandson

Twopenny Cribbage

Rudolph Ackermann, London

A Little Bigger

Thomas Rowlandson

The Supplemental Magazine

S. W. Fores

The Bum Shop

S. W. Fores

Slugs in a Saw-Pit

Thomas Rowlandson

Comedy Spectators, Tragedy Spectators

Thomas Rowlandson

A Brace of Public Guardians

Thomas Rowlandson

Beef à la Mode

Thomas Rowlandson

Preparing for a Duel

Thomas Rowlandson

The Pope's Advance Guard or the "Incroyable" in Rome (Avant garde du pape, ou l'Incroyable à Rome)

Anonymous, French, 18th century

The Frogs Who Wanted a King

Anonymous, British, 18th century