Download free public domain paintings, posters and illustrations

[revicon]

Nice! Adding it to my mega site of free image sites for blogging list.

https://www.mattcrampton.com/blog/mega_list_of_free_image_si...

[mattkevan]

Here’s mine too!

https://www.kevan.tv/2020/12/14/the-best-sites-for-public-do...

[swyx]

here is my list https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy#stock-photos-and-videos

[criddell]

I searched pug and it's very interesting to see what a pug looked like 200 years ago.

I also searched for rocket and have no idea what I'm seeing.

https://artvee.com/?s=rocket&post_type=product

[navanchauhan]

It is a Children's Book about Urban Living. [0]

[0] https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/08/08/the-rocket-book-pet...

[Biganon]

A child lights up a rocket in the basement, it travels upwards through every apartment in the building.

[weaksauce]

alternative project gutenberg link to the rocket book

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17104/17104-h/17104-h.htm

[markdown]

Great site, thanks for sharing it.

I love botanical illustrations so searched for that. Instead of showing me the search results page, it took me to this image: https://artvee.com/dl/view-of-charlottenborg-palace-in-copen...

It should have taken me here: https://artvee.com/c/botanical/

[ChrisArchitect]

url has ?

some previous discussion:

5 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25370804

7 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24745009

11 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23491940

[heywintermute]

Was gonna say I feel like I've seen this posted on HN a few times now

[Already__Taken]

I wished they'd filled in all of the metadata so I could find the artists from my backgrounds folder in 5 years.

[jihadjihad]

This is really cool. Does anyone have any suggestions for a reputable printing company for creating prints of these? I see the site links to Canvaspop but I'd be hoping to find someone that could do giclée prints or similar, rather than only canvas.

[mattkevan]

https://www.prodigi.com

High quality giclee prints as well as a range of other products.

I also sell public domain prints through my Etsy shop (sorry for the shameless plug).

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TheDoveAndTheSeagull

[qwertox]

I can't remember how I got to this, but somewhere there must have been a blog post on this May 3rd talking about dibond aluminum printing, which lead me to this company

https://www.whitewall.com/us/metal-prints/ultra-hd-aluminum-...

I had been considering to use them, but forgot about it. They seem to have pretty good tech, offering many different types of printing methods.

[y-c-o-m-b]

This is third time I've seen artvee posted on here. I'm happy to see it again! I freaking love the user experience of this website, it's so simple yet so intuitive. The other websites I went to have horrible search features or display the images in really tiny thumbnails.

[octostone]

This is fantastic, thank you for posting it!

[juliend2]

I like the business model of offering to print it via vistaprint (which might give them a cut).

[meristohm]

How is this funded?

[blakesterz]

There's a link on each image that lets you order a print from canvaspop, I would guess they get a cut of each order.

[SirPulse]

A little tangential question - but is there a time at which art becomes public domain? 50 years after its creation? Longer?

edit: Here's more details https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain