The Public Domain Review
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The Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review is dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas – focusing on works now fallen into the public domain, the vast commons of out-of-copyright material that ...
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Essays
Every two weeks we publish a new long-form essay which seeks to offer insight and reflection upon public domain works and the oft overlooked histories which surround them.
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Meet Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Juliette Bretan, Mark Hobbs, and the 318 other Authors who have contributed to The Public Domain Review · Shop Our Range of PrintsPremium prints using pigment-based archival inks (Giclee process) on high grade heavyweight art paper.
Collections
We curate collections of images, books, audio and film, shining a light on curiosities and wonders from a wide range of online archives. Leaning toward the surprising, the strange, and the beautiful, we hope to provide an ever-growing cabinet of curiosities for the digital age
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Shop — The Public Domain Review
Shop Our Range of PrintsPremium prints using pigment-based archival inks (Giclee process) on high grade heavyweight art paper. Available as unframed or framed and ready to hang.Free Shipping to US, UK, EU, Canada, and Australia. ... The PDR Press is the publishing spin-off project of The Public Domain Review, publishing our annual Selected Essays collection and more.
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Explore — The Public Domain Review
1,221 posts in Collections featuring public domain content from 240 source institutions; 382 essays, including 29 in Curator’s Choice and 21 in Conjectures, from 321 authors; 949 prints in our online shop; and 10,743 images in the Public Domain ...
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Medium: Images — Collections — The Public Domain Review
“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca.
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About Our Prints — The Public Domain Review
Through our prints shop we offer custom-made prints of exceptional quality — available unframed or framed and delivered to your door. Printed by the Giclée process and utilising premium archival materials, our prints are made to last generations. All proceeds from sales go back into The Public Domain Review (a not-for-profit project) and make up roughly 25% of our funding.
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The Public Domain Review - Wikipedia
May 13, 2025 - The Review published its first print anthology in late 2014, a collection of 34 essays published online during 2011–13. It was reviewed as "an incredible collection of esoterica" by The Paris Review, and featured as one of Wired's best science books of 2014. A second volume in The Public Domain: Selected Essays print series was published in 2015.
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Shop FAQ — The Public Domain Review
Orders for US and Canada will be printed on Epson’s Somerset Velvet (255gsm); Australian orders on Hahnemühle’s Photo Rag (188gsm); and all other orders on St Cuthbert Mill’s Somerset Enhanced Velvet (255gsm).
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About — The Public Domain Review
Since 2014 it has published the annual Selected Essays series, which brings you the very best of our longform pieces in the form of lovingly-produced books; and as of early 2016, also New Editions, beautifully designed reprints and reworkings of public domain material. ... Since 2017 we’ve been raising money for the project through selling a range of high quality giclée prints of an ever-expanding selection of favourites from the PDR archives.
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Collections — The Public Domain Review
Search The Public Domain Review · Support PDR · + Filter Options · Browse Media · AllImagesBooksFilmAudio · Filtered By · AllEpochTheme · Browsing by MediumAllImagesBooksFilmAudio · Filter All Collections by · All · Epoch · Theme · Images / Animals & Beasts, Death, Music & Arts ·
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A New Batch of Prints and Introducing Themed Sets — The Public Domain Review
You can now browse and explore our many hundreds of prints in a series of 17 new “themed sets” which group images under an array of themes, including The Heavens, Illustration, Diagrams and Schemas, Feathered Friends, Under the Sea, Other Worlds and Dark Arts, and one abstract offering called Abstract-ish.
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Blog — The Public Domain Review
Gathering over 500 prints, paintings, illustrations, sketches, photographs, doodles, and everything in between, Affinities is a carefully curated journey exploring echoes and connections across more than two millennia of visual culture. It’s Our 10th Birthday! Celebrating a Decade of The Public Domain Review...
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Books — The Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, Vol.
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Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive — The Public Domain Review
Expanding upon the 900 or so prints already available in the PDR Print Shop, the PDIA now offers several thousand images ready to adorn your walls. Whether you’re a researcher, an artist, a designer, or simply a lover of old images, we hope you find the PDIA to be a source of inspiration and delight. Explore, download, and create to your heart’s content! Finally, it is of vital importance that we bring this new project to you for free as we believe in a cultural commons where public domain works are accessible to all.