Public domain art: writing
Artworks depicting writing, catalogued by the museums that hold them. Each one is free to download, with its colour palette extracted from the image and its maximum print size measured at 300 DPI.
Works in Public domain art: writing
Saint John on Patmos
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)
Taking the Census
Francis William Edmonds
The Writing Master
Thomas Eakins
Edward Miles (1752–1828)
Sir William Beechey
Curiosity
Gerard ter Borch the Younger
Allegory of Lyric Poetry
François Boucher
The Calling of Saint Matthew
Jan Sanders van Hemessen
Book Cover
Italian (Sienese) Painter
Portrait of an Olivetan Monk
Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi
Self-Portrait
Salvator Rosa
Saint Matthew and the Angel
Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo
The Arab Sage
German Painter
The Recording of Precedents: Confucius and His Pupils Collate and Transcribe Documents in Their Favorite Grove; Color Study for Mural, Supreme Court Room, Minnesota State Capitol, Saint Paul
John La Farge
『青楼七小町』 「玉屋内花紫」|“Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya,” from the series Seven Komachi of the Pleasure Quarters (Seirō Nana Komachi)
Kitagawa Utamaro
『閨の雛形』 正月|Plate from the Erotic Book Mounds of Dyed Colors: A Pattern Book for the Boudoir (Someiro no yama neya no hinagata), First Month
Okumura Masanobu
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
A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina
Philip Dawe
The Alternative of Williams-Burg
Philip Dawe
Phillis Wheatley
Archibald Bell
Hudibras and the Lawyer (Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 12)
Philip Overton
Writing the Emancipation Proclamation (from Confederate War Etchings)
Adalbert John Volck
A Sailor's Will
George Murgatroyd Woodward
The defendant (whispering to his lawyer): All this seems to bore the president. Why don't you just suggest to simply let me go home, from 'Parisian sketches,' published in Le Charivari, February 17, 1866
Aaron Martinet
The Charivari. Forced to draw a new map of an area now used for manoeuvres, which used to be the location of the "Temple of Peace," from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, November 26, 1867
Honoré Daumier
Basile, my friend, your word is going to be askew, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, January 20, 1870
Walter Frères
A Sailor's Will
Rudolph Ackermann, London
Four Icons from a Pair of Doors (Panels), possibly part of a Polyptych: John the Theologian and Prochoros, the Baptism (Epiphany), Harrowing of Hell (Anastasis), and Saint Nicholas
Unknown artist
Taxes! (from Sketchbook)
James McNeill Whistler
Portrait of Jacques Delille
Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio
St. Paul Dictating at Ephesus
Abraham van Diepenbeeck
The Immortal Author
Christian Bernhard Rode
Mathurin Régnier
Eugène Delacroix
Frontispiece for "Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum"
Jan Goeree
Allegory of History
François Chauveau
Two Figures of Evangelists Writing
Anonymous, Spanish, School of Seville, 17th century
Saint Matthew
Camille-Auguste Gastine