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 Champion of the People

Charles James Fox

Procession to The Hustings After A Successful Canvass

Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough

The Pit of Acheron or The Birth of the Plagues of England

Thomas Rowlandson

The Duenna & Little Isaac

John Quick

The Westminster Watchman

Sir Cecil Wray

The Westminster Deserter Drum'd Out of The Regiment

Charles James Fox

Dark Lanthern Business, or, Mrs. Hob and Nob On a Night Canvass With a Bosom Friend

Hannah Humphrey

The Dead Alive!

Thomas Rowlandson

The Dead Alive!

William Holland

Sympathy, or A Family On A Journey Laying The Dust

William Humphrey

The Defeat of the High & Mighty Bailissimo Corbettino...

Thomas Rowlandson

Comfort in the Gout

John Raphael Smith

The Slang Society

Thomas Rowlandson

Captain Epilogue

Thomas Cornell

Aerostation out at Elbows, or The Itinerant Aeronaut

Thomas Rowlandson

The Contest at Auckinleck (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the Second)

Thomas Rowlandson

Imitations at Drury-Lane Theatre (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the Second)

Samuel Collings

The Reconciliation (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the Second)

Samuel Johnson

Love and Learning, or the Oxford Scholar

S. W. Fores

Domestic Shaving

Thomas Rowlandson

Domestic Shaving

John Raphael Smith

The Sorrows of Werter–The Last Interview

Samuel Collings

Misery

Thomas Rowlandson

John Bull in France

Thomas Rowlandson

Monsieur in England

Henry Wigstead

Fierce as staring Ajax from this seat...

Thomas Rowlandson

The Triumph of Hypocrisy

Thomas Rowlandson

Bozzy and Madame Piozzi (Frontispiece, "Bozzy and Piozzi" by Peter Pindar)

John Wolcot

The Times

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Liberality and Desire

Thomas Rowlandson

The Breakfast

S. W. Fores

A New Speaker and The Wedding Night

William Holland

Neddy's Black Box

Thomas Rowlandson

The Rochester Address or The Corporation Going To Eat Roast Pork and Oysters with the R-G-T.

George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland

A Fresh Breeze

Thomas Rowlandson

The Irish Ambassadors Extraordinary, A Gallante Show

Thomas Rowlandson

The Pitt Fall

Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton

State Butchers

William Pitt

Repeal of the Test Act

Johann Friedrich, Count of Struensee

St James's and St Giles's

Thomas Rowlandson

Art of Scaling

Thomas Rowlandson

Parson Adams Betrayed into an Unhappy Dunking Scene, from "The Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams"

Henry Fielding

Joseph Hastens to Rescue Fanny from Imminent Danger, from "The Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams"

Henry Fielding

Parson Adams Discovered in a Suspicious Situation with Mrs. Slipslop, from "The Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams"

Henry Fielding

A Master of Ceremonies Introducing a Partner

Thomas Rowlandson

A Master of the Ceremonies Introducing a Partner

Thomas Rowlandson

Men Dancing in a Coffee House, an illustration from Tobias Smollett's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" (London, 1793), Vol. 1

James Sibbald

Lord Oxmington Repelling Lismahago's Challenge to Single Combat, an illustration from Tobias Smollett's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" (London, 1793), Vol. 1

James Sibbald

A Dutch Abbess and her Nymphs

S. W. Fores

Sadlers Flying Artillery

Thomas Rowlandson

Avaricious Lovers

George Murgatroyd Woodward

Drunken Lovers

Thomas Rowlandson

Comforts of Bath, Plate 2

S. W. Fores

Comforts of Bath, Plate 11

S. W. Fores

Comforts of Bath, Plate 1

Thomas Rowlandson

Comforts of Bath, Plate 7

Thomas Rowlandson

Comforts of Bath, Plate 11

Thomas Rowlandson

Fast Day

Thomas Rowlandson

Racing [The Start]

Thomas Rowlandson

The Sailor and Banker

Rudolph Ackermann, London