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An illustration of a child’s dream from The ladies’ floral cabinet v.3:no.33 (1874).
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Cover of Life Magazine 1922, The Flapper - Click here for more free public domain and copyright free pictures
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L'Espace céleste et la nature tropicale by Emmanuel Liais
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Symbolical alchemical drawing and text From Thesaurus of Alchemy, ca. 1725 (via The Public Domain Review)
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Henry Walter Bates, 1862
An Aggressively Friendly Good Morning To You (my title)
From: Stories, Weird and Wonderful, 1889
The Illuminated Books of the middle ages; an account of the development and progress of the art of illumination ... from the IVth to the XVIIth centuries
Owen Jones 1844-49
British Optical Instruments Manufacturer
Image from page 198 of "Kunst, krieg und krieger : zur geschichte der kriegsdarstellungen"
1917
“I’ll paint the town red” by Grant E. Hamilton
Cartoon from the magazine "The Judge". "Democracy" is portrayed as the devil holding a bucket labeled "Bourbon Principles" and a paintbrush (in which appears a profile caricature of Grover Cleveland), both dripping red paint with which he plans to "paint the town"; he is standing on a wall overlooking a view of Washington, D.C. showing mostly government buildings, some already flying red flags
January 31, 1885
Water lily, dragon fly, frogs, and tadpoles
What to Draw and How to Draw It, by George Edwin Lutz, 1913