A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
~Tom Peters
For Art Thursday, images from the Public Domain Review:
The Circulating Library
George Spratt, ca. 1830
Owl with Two Owlets Sitting on Branch
Henri De Groux, 1895
Study of a Hand with Needle
Henricus Wilhelmus Couwenberg, ca. 1830
The Mansion of the Plates
Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1830
The Night-Blowing Cereus
Robert John Thornton, 1807
1 comment:
These are really cool. I think that George Spratt and Katsushika Hokusai were definitely ahead of their time!
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