The Public Domain Review

Essays and collections exploring art, literature and history in the public domain.

Gaming & Entertainment · 20 stories · Latest publication Nov 11, 2026

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The Public Domain Review · Nov 11, 2026

Soldiers of Misfortune: The Drawings of Urs Graf the Elder

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The Public Domain Review · Nov 11, 2026

Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season

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The Public Domain Review · Nov 11, 2026

The Triumph of Labour: Walter Crane’s Cartoons for the Cause (1896)

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The Public Domain Review · Nov 10, 2026

D. W. Griffith’s A Corner in Wheat (1909)

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The Public Domain Review · Nov 4, 2026

Slavdom Unearthed: Marian Wawrzeniecki’s Neopagan Paintings (1891–1923)

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The Public Domain Review · Oct 28, 2026

Wonderful Weather: Floods and Foreboding in 17th-Century Britain

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The Public Domain Review · Oct 27, 2026

Albrecht Dürer’s Monument to the Vanquished Peasants (1525)

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The Public Domain Review · Oct 22, 2026

“Earth Not a Globe”: Parallax’s Zetetic Astronomy (1865)

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The Public Domain Review · Oct 20, 2026

Immortal Beloved: Krishna and Rādhā Exchanging Clothes (ca. 1700–1900)

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The Public Domain Review · Oct 14, 2026

“Men with Queer Nerves”: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine

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The Public Domain Review · Oct 13, 2026

Rudolf Kalvach’s Wiener Werkstätte Postcards (1907)

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The Public Domain Review · Oct 7, 2026

Paul Carus’ The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil (1899)

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The Public Domain Review · Oct 6, 2026

The Alchemical Transformations of the Mutus Liber (1677)

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The Public Domain Review · Sep 30, 2026

Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)graces of the Parenthesis

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The Public Domain Review · Sep 30, 2026

“There is Nothing but Immortality!”: Walt Whitman and The Book of Heavenly Death (1905)

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The Public Domain Review · Sep 29, 2026

Anatomy Unzipped: John of Arderne’s Sweden Scroll (ca. 1425–35)

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The Public Domain Review · Sep 23, 2026

In Company Style: Illustrations from James Skinner’s Kitāb-i tashrīḥ al-aqvām (1825)

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The Public Domain Review · Sep 16, 2026

Veronese's Dogs

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The Public Domain Review · Sep 15, 2026

It’s “A Cat-astrophe”! (1919)

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The Public Domain Review · Sep 10, 2026

Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (early 19th century)

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