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Founded in 2011, The Public Domain Review is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.
12 Beautiful 19th Century Watercolors of Wildlife
The Bestiarium of Aloys Zötl (1831-1887) These beautiful watercolors come from the Austrian painter Aloys Zötl's Bestiarium, a series of exquisite paintings of various animals...
10 Intricate Jellyfish Illustrations from the 19th Century
The German biologist Ernst Haeckel was fascinated by medusae, the umbrella-shaped animals commonly called jellyfish. For Haeckel, whose imagination was shaped in the Romantic...
10 Stunning 19th Century Great Barrier Reef Illustrations and Photos
Images from William Saville-Kent's The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (1893) While naming and arranging corals in the Natural History Department of the British Museum,...
20 Exquisite 16th Century Watercolors of Medicinal Plants
These wonderful full-page watercolor illustrations are from a 16th-century edition of Pedanius Dioscorides's work on herbal medicine, De Materia Medica. Dioscorides (ca. 40–90 AD),...
These 19th Century Illustrations Depict the Beauty of Bugs
This article and collection of exquisite insect illustrations by Jean-Henri Fabre is from The Public Domain Review, an online journal and nonprofit that's "dedicated...
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