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

The Board of Censors Moves Out

Eugène Delacroix

Polemical Duel between Lady Quotidienne and Sir Journal de Paris

Eugène Delacroix

Hamlet and Horatio before the Gravediggers

Eugène Delacroix

Line in front of the Butcher Shop

Alfred Strölin

In Childhood's Country

Ethel Reed

Folly or Saintliness

Ethel Reed

Central Park, Winter – The Skating Pond

Charles Parsons

Haunting

Odilon Redon

View of New York from Brooklyn Heights

Frances Flora Bond Palmer

The War – Making Havelocks for the Volunteers (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. 5, no. 235, cover)

Winslow Homer

The Army of the Potomac – A Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VII)

Winslow Homer

Life in Camp, Part 2: In the Trenches; Good Bye; Fording; Extra Ration; The Field Barber; The Girl He Left Behind Him; Drummer; A Deserter; Home on Furlough; The Rifle Pit; Teamster; Our Special

Winslow Homer

Ci-devant Occupations; or, Madame Talian and the Empress Josephine Dancing Naked before Barrass in the Winter of 1797. - A Fact!

James Gillray

Celebrrrre Jury de Peinture..., published in Le Charivari, March 16, 1840

Honoré Daumier

Broadside with 16 caricature figures representing celebrities of the world

Juan Llorens

The People Delivered to the Vampire Taxes

Association Mensuelle

Exhibition at Bullock's Museum of Bonaparte's Carriage Taken at Waterloo

Thomas Rowlandson

The Royal Allied Oak and Self-Created Mushroom Kings

John M. Field

Nadar Élevant la Photographie à la Hauteur de l'Art

Honoré Daumier

–They're talking about new elections. –Before I vote for a candidate, I want him to be examined by a doctor to make sure he is not declared invalid again, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, September 27, 1869

Walter Frères

Seated Woman with a Spider's Web (Die Frau mit dem Spinnennnetz zwischen kahlen Baumen)

Christian Friedrich

Woman with a Raven (Die Frau mit dem Raben am Abgrund)

Christian Friedrich

Théâtre Italien

Eugène Delacroix

The Plumb-Pudding in Danger;–or–State Epicures Taking un Petit Souper

James Gillray

The Cliff Dwellers of New York

Mary Nimmo Moran

Printing-House Square, New York

Baker & Godwin

George Miflin Dallas

Patrick Reason

Annie

Annie Harriet Haden

Ignatius Sancho

Francesco Bartolozzi

The Fall of Richmond, Virginia, on the Night of April 2nd, 1865

Currier & Ives

"Rounding a Bend" on the Mississippi – The Parting Salute

Currier & Ives

Landscape – Fruit and Flowers

Currier & Ives

Richmond Seminary, Staten Island, N.Y.

Francis & Seymour Palmer

États-Unis d'Amerique - Infanterie de ligne

Draner

Central Park, Statue of the Indian Hunter

Anonymous, American, 19th century

Locomotion: Walking by Steam, Riding by Steam, Flying by Steam

Robert Seymour

Looking at the Comet till You Get a Crick in the Neck

Thomas Rowlandson

Adèlaïde...Il me semble que je vois...la comète! (Adelaide...I think I see the comet!), from Croquis Parisiens, published in Le Charivari, February 18, 1857

Aaron Martinet

Laceing [sic] a Dandy

Anonymous, British, 19th century

The Supreme Bon Ton, No. 3

S. W. Fores

Portrait of Mlle Quivoron

Marie Bracquemond

Sherman at Savannah, Georgia

John Chester Buttre

Seventh Ward Beggars

Henry R. Robinson

Exhibition "Stare" Case

Thomas Rowlandson

Little Mac, in His Great Two Horse Act, in the Presendential Canvass of 1864

Justin H. Howard

Heads of the Democracy

Currier & Ives

Little Mac Trying to Dig His Way to the White House, But is Frightened by Spiritual Manifestations

Anonymous, American, 19th century

Copperheads Worshiping Their Idol

Anonymous, American, 19th century

The Chicago Platform, What is It, Peace or War

Anonymous, American, 19th century

The War Candidate on a Peace Platform

Anonymous, American, 19th century

Head Quarters at Harrison's Landing

Anonymous, American, 19th century

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

David Claypoole Johnston

A New Method of Macarony Making, as Practised at Boston

Pendleton's Lithography

A Little Game of Bagatelle, Between Old Abe the Rail Splitter & Little Mac the Gunboat General

John L. Magee

Chicago Nominee: "I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest...Where be your gibes now?–Hamlet, Act IV [sic], Scene 1"

Justin H. Howard

Uncle Sam's Annual Celebration, Fire-Works of the Period, from "The Judge"

Thomas B. Worth

All on Hobbies, Gee Up, Gee Ho!

Henry Clay

A Galvanized Corpse

Henry R. Robinson

Peace and Plenty or Good News for John Bull!!!

George Cruikshank

The Theatrical Atlas

George Cruikshank