"The Land of Cockaigne", Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1567. https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1474852463312351241/photo/1
December 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"The Land of Cockaigne", Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1567. https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1474852463312351241/photo/1
🎶 Hear from WNYC’s Simon Close on the Public Song Project
What can you create from the public domain? From poems to forgotten songs, discover how open culture becomes new music and how you can take part.
Learn more 👉 www.wnyc.org/story/2026-p...
#PublicSongContest @PublicDomainRev @wnyc.org
What can you create from the public domain? From poems to forgotten songs, discover how open culture becomes new music and how you can take part.
Learn more 👉 www.wnyc.org/story/2026-p...
#PublicSongContest @PublicDomainRev @wnyc.org
April 10, 2026 at 6:46 PM
🎶 Hear from WNYC’s Simon Close on the Public Song Project
What can you create from the public domain? From poems to forgotten songs, discover how open culture becomes new music and how you can take part.
Learn more 👉 www.wnyc.org/story/2026-p...
#PublicSongContest @PublicDomainRev @wnyc.org
What can you create from the public domain? From poems to forgotten songs, discover how open culture becomes new music and how you can take part.
Learn more 👉 www.wnyc.org/story/2026-p...
#PublicSongContest @PublicDomainRev @wnyc.org
The underside of the Great Water Lily by William Sharp, creator of the very first chromolithograph on American soil.
More "lillistrations" here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1217120491229589505/photo/1...
More "lillistrations" here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1217120491229589505/photo/1...
August 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The underside of the Great Water Lily by William Sharp, creator of the very first chromolithograph on American soil.
More "lillistrations" here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1217120491229589505/photo/1...
More "lillistrations" here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1217120491229589505/photo/1...
The letter "A" from the Libellus Novus Elemntorum Latinorum, a 17th-century alphabet of organic type.
More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-alphabet-of-organic-type-ca-1650 https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1362158175118635012/photo/1
More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-alphabet-of-organic-type-ca-1650 https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1362158175118635012/photo/1
February 13, 2026 at 8:47 PM
The letter "A" from the Libellus Novus Elemntorum Latinorum, a 17th-century alphabet of organic type.
More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-alphabet-of-organic-type-ca-1650 https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1362158175118635012/photo/1
More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-alphabet-of-organic-type-ca-1650 https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1362158175118635012/photo/1
The underside of the Great Water Lily by William Sharp, creator of the very first chromolithograph on American soil.
More "lillistrations" here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1217120491229589505/photo/1...
More "lillistrations" here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1217120491229589505/photo/1...
July 7, 2026 at 7:47 PM
The underside of the Great Water Lily by William Sharp, creator of the very first chromolithograph on American soil.
More "lillistrations" here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1217120491229589505/photo/1...
More "lillistrations" here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1217120491229589505/photo/1...
“The flying Dragon is somewhat troublesome to compose...” ⠀
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From The Mysteries of Nature and Art (1634), a book that is said to have spurred a young Isaac Newton onto the scientific path — publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1450880306207240194/photo/1...
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From The Mysteries of Nature and Art (1634), a book that is said to have spurred a young Isaac Newton onto the scientific path — publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1450880306207240194/photo/1...
September 10, 2026 at 7:45 PM
“The flying Dragon is somewhat troublesome to compose...” ⠀
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From The Mysteries of Nature and Art (1634), a book that is said to have spurred a young Isaac Newton onto the scientific path — publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1450880306207240194/photo/1...
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From The Mysteries of Nature and Art (1634), a book that is said to have spurred a young Isaac Newton onto the scientific path — publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1450880306207240194/photo/1...
Mushroom babies, heroic tortoises, death, burial, power struggles: a book of Ikom folk tales from southern Nigeria published by a colonial administrator in 1913 — publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1336411018826817542/photo/1...
March 7, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Mushroom babies, heroic tortoises, death, burial, power struggles: a book of Ikom folk tales from southern Nigeria published by a colonial administrator in 1913 — publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1336411018826817542/photo/1...
Happy 1st of June! Here's its entry in the beautiful Très Riches Heures, a 15th-century Book of Hours: publicdomainreview.org/collection/l... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1134789419116969985/photo/1...
(Scyther to the right in pink getting into the Summer spirit... 😳)
(Scyther to the right in pink getting into the Summer spirit... 😳)
June 1, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Happy 1st of June! Here's its entry in the beautiful Très Riches Heures, a 15th-century Book of Hours: publicdomainreview.org/collection/l... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1134789419116969985/photo/1...
(Scyther to the right in pink getting into the Summer spirit... 😳)
(Scyther to the right in pink getting into the Summer spirit... 😳)
“The flying Dragon is somewhat troublesome to compose...” ⠀
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From The Mysteries of Nature and Art (1634), a book that is said to have spurred a young Isaac Newton onto the scientific path — publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1450880306207240194/photo/1...
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From The Mysteries of Nature and Art (1634), a book that is said to have spurred a young Isaac Newton onto the scientific path — publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1450880306207240194/photo/1...
October 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“The flying Dragon is somewhat troublesome to compose...” ⠀
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From The Mysteries of Nature and Art (1634), a book that is said to have spurred a young Isaac Newton onto the scientific path — publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1450880306207240194/photo/1...
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From The Mysteries of Nature and Art (1634), a book that is said to have spurred a young Isaac Newton onto the scientific path — publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1450880306207240194/photo/1...
Santa snoozing...
From a 1908 issue of “The Suburbanite: A Monthly Magazine for Those Who Are and Those Who Ought to Be Interested in Suburban Homes”. https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1474693415271030785/photo/1
From a 1908 issue of “The Suburbanite: A Monthly Magazine for Those Who Are and Those Who Ought to Be Interested in Suburban Homes”. https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1474693415271030785/photo/1
December 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Santa snoozing...
From a 1908 issue of “The Suburbanite: A Monthly Magazine for Those Who Are and Those Who Ought to Be Interested in Suburban Homes”. https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1474693415271030785/photo/1
From a 1908 issue of “The Suburbanite: A Monthly Magazine for Those Who Are and Those Who Ought to Be Interested in Suburban Homes”. https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1474693415271030785/photo/1
Image from Mattia Giegher’s Trattato delle piegature, a 1629 treatise on the art of napkin folding.
More of these wonderful starched objets d’art in the site: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1356670227317194753/photo/1...
More of these wonderful starched objets d’art in the site: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1356670227317194753/photo/1...
July 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Image from Mattia Giegher’s Trattato delle piegature, a 1629 treatise on the art of napkin folding.
More of these wonderful starched objets d’art in the site: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1356670227317194753/photo/1...
More of these wonderful starched objets d’art in the site: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1356670227317194753/photo/1...
Happy 1st of June! Here's its entry in the beautiful Très Riches Heures, a 15th-century Book of Hours: publicdomainreview.org/collection/l... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1134789419116969985/photo/1...
(Scyther to the right in pink getting into the Summer spirit... 😳)
(Scyther to the right in pink getting into the Summer spirit... 😳)
June 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Happy 1st of June! Here's its entry in the beautiful Très Riches Heures, a 15th-century Book of Hours: publicdomainreview.org/collection/l... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1134789419116969985/photo/1...
(Scyther to the right in pink getting into the Summer spirit... 😳)
(Scyther to the right in pink getting into the Summer spirit... 😳)
Image from Mattia Giegher’s Trattato delle piegature, a 1629 treatise on the art of napkin folding.
More of these wonderful starched objets d’art in the site: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1356670227317194753/photo/1...
More of these wonderful starched objets d’art in the site: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1356670227317194753/photo/1...
June 4, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Image from Mattia Giegher’s Trattato delle piegature, a 1629 treatise on the art of napkin folding.
More of these wonderful starched objets d’art in the site: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1356670227317194753/photo/1...
More of these wonderful starched objets d’art in the site: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1356670227317194753/photo/1...
Roger McDonald on the mysterious Dr Daniel Fenberger and his investigations into an archive known as “The Book of Halved Things” — from our Conjectures series: https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1453803264659673095/photo/1
December 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Roger McDonald on the mysterious Dr Daniel Fenberger and his investigations into an archive known as “The Book of Halved Things” — from our Conjectures series: https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1453803264659673095/photo/1
🎶 Create Songs from the Commons! 🎶
WNYC’s Simon Close shares how the Public Song Project invites anyone (yes, YOU) to transform #publicdomain worksinto original songs with no fancy gear required.
Let this Q&A inspire you to start creating👇 publicdomainreview.org/blog/2026/04...
#publicdomainrev
WNYC’s Simon Close shares how the Public Song Project invites anyone (yes, YOU) to transform #publicdomain worksinto original songs with no fancy gear required.
Let this Q&A inspire you to start creating👇 publicdomainreview.org/blog/2026/04...
#publicdomainrev
April 14, 2026 at 7:02 PM
🎶 Create Songs from the Commons! 🎶
WNYC’s Simon Close shares how the Public Song Project invites anyone (yes, YOU) to transform #publicdomain worksinto original songs with no fancy gear required.
Let this Q&A inspire you to start creating👇 publicdomainreview.org/blog/2026/04...
#publicdomainrev
WNYC’s Simon Close shares how the Public Song Project invites anyone (yes, YOU) to transform #publicdomain worksinto original songs with no fancy gear required.
Let this Q&A inspire you to start creating👇 publicdomainreview.org/blog/2026/04...
#publicdomainrev
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Coloured engravings by Theodor de Bry of the ancient Picts (a Roman name given to the people of what is now northern Scotland) — from Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590).
Coloured engravings by Theodor de Bry of the ancient Picts (a Roman name given to the people of what is now northern Scotland) — from Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590).
September 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Coloured engravings by Theodor de Bry of the ancient Picts (a Roman name given to the people of what is now northern Scotland) — from Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590).
Coloured engravings by Theodor de Bry of the ancient Picts (a Roman name given to the people of what is now northern Scotland) — from Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590).
RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/117388723624166224
a deranged pervert really got their way here. "no no no i'm going to smoke and then blow it up the corpse's ass" I Know What You Are
a deranged pervert really got their way here. "no no no i'm going to smoke and then blow it up the corpse's ass" I Know What You Are
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Before CPR there was... blowing tobacco smoke up the bum. One of the recommended procedures for resuscitating "persons apparently dead from drowning", from a 1787 booklet by the Humane Society. More here: https://buff.ly/3FSaQjs
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October 5, 2026 at 3:38 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/117388723624166224
a deranged pervert really got their way here. "no no no i'm going to smoke and then blow it up the corpse's ass" I Know What You Are
a deranged pervert really got their way here. "no no no i'm going to smoke and then blow it up the corpse's ass" I Know What You Are
"I see graphic depictions of all my flaws and mistakes."
Fine essay on the great Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz:By @JCBretan , via @PublicDomainRev.
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Fine essay on the great Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz:By @JCBretan , via @PublicDomainRev.
publicdomainreview.org/essay/document…
December 8, 2024 at 8:09 AM
"I see graphic depictions of all my flaws and mistakes."
Fine essay on the great Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz:By @JCBretan , via @PublicDomainRev.
publicdomainreview.org/essay/document…
Fine essay on the great Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz:By @JCBretan , via @PublicDomainRev.
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👹 Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)
Text by Mathilde Montpetit
at @publicdomainrev.bsky.social @publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
#HistoiresProdigieuses #MedievalBestiary #ScientificTreatise #PublicDomain
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Text by Mathilde Montpetit
at @publicdomainrev.bsky.social @publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
#HistoiresProdigieuses #MedievalBestiary #ScientificTreatise #PublicDomain
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April 2, 2026 at 1:21 PM
👹 Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)
Text by Mathilde Montpetit
at @publicdomainrev.bsky.social @publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
#HistoiresProdigieuses #MedievalBestiary #ScientificTreatise #PublicDomain
publicdomainreview.org/collection/h...
Text by Mathilde Montpetit
at @publicdomainrev.bsky.social @publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
#HistoiresProdigieuses #MedievalBestiary #ScientificTreatise #PublicDomain
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When Betty left, no longer able to perform the Egyptian sand dance, Wilson and Keppel tried several other acts.
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Attached: 3 images The 3 stages of the “Dripping Sheet”. Illustrations from Practical Hydrotherapy: A Manual for Students and Practitioners (1909) by Dr Curran Pope. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/practical-hydrotherapy-1909
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August 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
When Betty left, no longer able to perform the Egyptian sand dance, Wilson and Keppel tried several other acts.
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Очередное напоминание, что фейки и постправда не вчера появились. Вот @PublicDomainRev выкладывает сделанную в 1889 году потрясающую фотографию солнечного затмения Карлтона Уоткинса, довольно знаменитого пейзажного фотографа XIX века.
November 17, 2020 at 10:14 AM
Очередное напоминание, что фейки и постправда не вчера появились. Вот @PublicDomainRev выкладывает сделанную в 1889 году потрясающую фотографию солнечного затмения Карлтона Уоткинса, довольно знаменитого пейзажного фотографа XIX века.
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Born #onthisday in 1828, the English poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and serious wombat fan Dante Gabriel Rossetti... publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-uomm... #otd
@PublicDomainRev
Born #onthisday in 1828, the English poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and serious wombat fan Dante Gabriel Rossetti... publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-uomm... #otd
May 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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@PublicDomainRev
Born #onthisday in 1828, the English poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and serious wombat fan Dante Gabriel Rossetti... publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-uomm... #otd
@PublicDomainRev
Born #onthisday in 1828, the English poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and serious wombat fan Dante Gabriel Rossetti... publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-uomm... #otd
July 30, 2026 at 11:09 PM