19th century public domain art

Artworks created between 1801 and 1900, drawn from every collection indexed here. Free to download, with colour palettes and print sizes measured from each file.

Works in 19th century public domain art

Brigadier General Gustavus A. DeRussy and Staff on Steps of Arlington House, Arlington, Virginia

Alexander Gardner

Excised Knee Joint. A Round Musket Ball in the Inner Condyle of the Right Femur [Gardiner Lewis, Company B, Nineteenth Indiana Volunteers]

William Bell

Tree Study, Forest of Fontainebleau

Gustave Le Gray

[Table Top Still Life with Model Cathedral and Small Sculptures]

Louis-Rémy Robert

Falls of the Llugwy, at Pont-y-Pair

Roger Fenton

Bust of Patroclus

William Henry Fox Talbot

Devil's Canyon, Geysers, Looking Down

Carleton E. Watkins

The Passing of Arthur

Julia Margaret Cameron

Beatrice

Julia Margaret Cameron

A Study

Julia Margaret Cameron

Circe

Julia Margaret Cameron

A Lovely Sketch

Julia Margaret Cameron

English Blossoms

Julia Margaret Cameron

Portail milieu d'Aubeterre

Gustave Le Gray

Private John Parkhurst, Company E, Second New York Heavy Artillery

Reed Brockway Bontecou

Private Samuel Shoop, Company F, 200th Pennsylvania Infantry

Reed Brockway Bontecou

Private Jacob F. Simmons, Company H, Eighty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers

Reed Brockway Bontecou

Corporal Israel Spotts, Company G, 200th Pennsylvania Volunteers

Reed Brockway Bontecou

Private James H. Stokes, Company H, 185th New York Volunteers

Reed Brockway Bontecou

Private Dennis Sullivan, Company E, Second Virginia Cavalry

Reed Brockway Bontecou

Gioacchino Rossini

Nadar

Prince Lobkowitz

André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

Hunford Mill, Surrey

Henry White

A Sioux Chief [Has-No-Horses]

Joseph T. Keiley

Indian Head

Joseph T. Keiley

Robert Browning

Julia Margaret Cameron

Ruins of Mrs. Henry's House, Battlefield of Bull Run

George N. Barnard

[Headquarters of Captain H. B. Blood, Assistant Quartermaster at City Point, Virginia]

Andrew Joseph Russell

[Convalescent Camp near Alexandria, Virginia]

Mathew B. Brady

[Pontoon Across Bull Run, near Blackburn's Ford, Virginia]

Timothy H. O'Sullivan

U.S. Transport "Wau Katchie"

Mathew B. Brady

End of the Bridge after Burnside's Attack, Fredericksburg, Virginia

Andrew Joseph Russell

Procession of Troops and Civilians on Way to Dedication of Soldiers' National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Isaac G. Tyson

Confederate Method of Destroying Rail Roads at McCloud Mill, Virginia

Andrew Joseph Russell

[Canal and Ruins of Richmond and Danville Railroad Depot, Richmond, Virginia]

Alexander Gardner

[Interior of Confederate Fort Darling, Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia]

William Frank Browne

Ruins of Richmond & Petersburg Railroad Bridge, Richmond, Virginia

Alexander Gardner

Ruins in Carey Street, Richmond

Thomas C. Roche

Armory Square Hospital, Washington

Mathew B. Brady

[Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia]

Egbert Guy Fowx

[Dead Confederate Soldier in the Trenches of Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia]

Thomas C. Roche

Laborers at Quartermaster's Wharf, Alexandria, Virginia

Mathew B. Brady

U.S. Monitor "Mahopac" on the Appomattox River

Mathew B. Brady

Ironclad fleet on James River below Rebel "Howlett House Battery"

Mathew B. Brady

Sir John Herschel

Julia Margaret Cameron

[Rocky Hillside]

Victor Prevost

Daughters of Jerusalem

Julia Margaret Cameron

[Mary Hillier]

Julia Margaret Cameron

Sappho

Julia Margaret Cameron

May Prinsep

Julia Margaret Cameron

The South West Wind

Julia Margaret Cameron

The Vicar of Freshwater

Julia Margaret Cameron

Henry Taylor

Julia Margaret Cameron

Christabel

Julia Margaret Cameron

Herr Joachim

Julia Margaret Cameron

Lionel Tennyson, Freshwater

Julia Margaret Cameron

The Maid of Athens (May Prinsep)

Julia Margaret Cameron

Minnie Thackeray

Julia Margaret Cameron

Charles Hay Cameron, Esq., in His Garden at Freshwater

Julia Margaret Cameron

Scherzo di Follia

Pierre-Louis Pierson