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 Bombardment of All the Thrones of Europe and the Fall of the Tyrants for the Happiness of the Universe (Bombardement de Tous les Trônes de l'Europe et la Chûte des Tyrans pour la Bonheur de l'Univers)
Anonymous, French, 18th century
Le Général la fayette soutenu sur les batons des marechaux Lukner et Rochambeau prend la Lune avec les dents
Anonymous, French, 18th century
The Ninth of Thermidor, or the English Surprise, to Honest People of All Countries (Le Neuf Thermidor ou la surprise angloise, aux honnêtes gens to tous le pays)
Jean-Baptiste Louvion
Lequel Faut-il Donner?
Anonymous, French, 18th century
The Game of Chinese Chess
John Ingram
Desire (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)
George Murgatroyd Woodward
Admiration (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)
George Murgatroyd Woodward
Veneration (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)
George Murgatroyd Woodward
Rapture (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)
Rudolph Ackermann, London
Laughter (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)
Thomas Rowlandson
Sadness (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)
George Murgatroyd Woodward
Sadness
George Murgatroyd Woodward
Weeping (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)
George Murgatroyd Woodward
Horror
Thomas Rowlandson
Terrour or Fright
Thomas Rowlandson
Anger
Thomas Rowlandson
Phillis Wheatley
Archibald Bell
The Political Clyster
William Hogarth
Frontispiece to Nicholas Amhurst's "Terrae-Filius"
Nicholas Amhurst
Hudibras and the Lawyer (Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 12)
Philip Overton
The Child and the Bulldog
Jean Honoré Fragonard
French Liberty – British Slavery
James Gillray
The Wedding Night
Isaac Cruikshank
Cestina Warehouse or Belly Piece Shop
Isaac Cruikshank
Concerto Coalitionale
Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle
The Idle 'Prentice Turned Away and Sent to Sea: Industry and Idleness, plate 5
William Hogarth
Hé c'est l'ami Carême!, Musée Grotesque No. 53
Aaron Martinet
Le Niveau Nationale (The National Level)
Anonymous, French, 18th century
Le Traité de Paix avec Rome (The Peace Treaty with Rome)
Anonymous, French, 18th century
Rentrée joyeuse et triomphale des Don-Quichottes Prussiens en Allemagne, après la conquête de la France, sous conduite de l'Aigle autrichien (The Joyous Triumphal Entry of the Prussian Don Quixote into Germany after the Conquest of France, Accompanied by the Austrian Eagle)
L'imprimerie du Cercle Social
William Hog-garth Esq. Drawn from the Life
William Hogarth
The Times, Plate 2
William Hogarth
The Times, Plate 1
William Hogarth
Vase with mask, a nude cup-bearing figure riding a goat followed by a satyr, and reptile handles, an oval composition
Jacques Guay
A Midnight Modern Conversation
William Hogarth
Luxury
Thomas Rowlandson
The Complicated R_____n
Jonathan Richardson Sr.
The Bruiser
William Hogarth
Un enfant assis sur une motte de terre (An enfant seated on a clod of earth), after Le Petit Savoyard by François Boucher, from Suite d'estampes gravées par madame la marquise de Pompadour d'après les pierres gravées de Guay, graveur du Roi
Madame la Marquise de Pompadour
Garrick Speaking the Jubilee Ode
Caroline Watson
Ophelia (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5)
Caroline Watson
Miranda (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2)
Caroline Watson
Prince Serge and Princess Barbara Gagarin with Prince Nicholas Their Son
Caroline Watson
John Milton
Caroline Watson
Desire
Rudolph Ackermann, London
Madonna and Child
Valentine Green
Peasant Leaning on a Sack of Grain
Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint Quentin
Peasant with Staff and Basket
Catherine-Francoise Beauvarlet
Peasant Woman with Two Children
Catherine-Francoise Beauvarlet
Marie-Josephe-Louise, Countesse of Provence, Madame
Louis Simon Boizot
Charles Phillipe, Count of Artois, Brother of the King
Jean Jacques Flipart
Marie-Térèse, Countess of Artois
Jean Jacques Flipart
Allegory of America, from the Four Continents
Georg Martin Preissler
Allegory of Asia, from the Four Continents
Georg Martin Preissler
Allegory of Africa, from the Four Continents
Edme Bouchardon
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Anne Rosalie Bocquet Filleul
The Departure
The Right Honorable Edmund Burke
Reynard Put To His Shifts
Thomas Rowlandson
The Rival Candidates
William Humphrey
His Highness The Protector
William Humphrey