Albert Sands Southworth - Medallion Portrait of a Woman - 2002.30 - Cl...
Southworth, a druggist, and Hawes, a carpenter and self-taught painter, operated a daguerreotype studio together in Boston that served the city’s elite. Masters of the aesthetic and technical aspects of the med... More
Alexander Henderson - Falls of Niagara - 1993.25 - Cleveland Museum of...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a waterfall, water stream, cascade, nature site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Alfred Rosling - Harbour, Swansea, Wales - 1996.353 - Cleveland Museum...
A successful timber merchant in the Hackney area of London and photographer, Alfred Rosling is known for several bodies of photographic work. His earliest photographs were made for a stereoscope establishment,... More
Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864-1946) - The Steerage - 2019.22 - Clev...
Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter. He was born in Hobo... More
America, 19th century - Untitled (Pennsylvania Railroad Engine) - 2007...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri - Untitled (French Military Heroes and Po...
This montage of France’s military and other leaders is a mosaic carte, a form invented by Disdéri, produced by cutting photographs of hundreds of figures away from their backgrounds, mounting the likenesses on ... More
André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri - Village Scene (Southern France) - 1996....
Although best known for his development of the carte-de-visite photograph which immortalized many a Parisian, Disdéri's photographic career began around 1850 in a daguerrian studio in Brest. Beset with financi... More
Anna Atkins - Scolopendrium Vulgare - 1995.26 - Cleveland Museum of Ar...
In 1843, Anna Atkins produced the first book illustrated with photographs. The book was the earliest use of photography in a scientific publication. An amateur botanist, Atkins overcame the difficulties of ma... More
Antonio Beato - Deir el-Medineh, Sacred Barge - 1993.93 - Cleveland Mu...
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Antonio Beato - Dendera, Interior of the Temple, Hathor Capitals - 199...
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Antonio Beato - Statue of Ramesses at Saqqara - 1993.95 - Cleveland Mu...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Antonio Beato - Temple of Dendera - 1993.96 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Antonio Beato - The Colossi of Memnon, Thebes - 1992.306 - Cleveland M...
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Antonio Beato - View of Aswan - Along the Nile - 1993.94 - Cleveland M...
Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Arthur Wesley Dow - City Island, New York - 1997.47 - Cleveland Museum...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Augustus Kelham - Bridge Street, Chester - 1996.246 - Cleveland Museum...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a 19th-century building, Victorian architecture style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Calvert Richard Jones - View of the Capitol Stairs, Rome - 1997.193 - ...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic Capitol building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Captain Horatio Ross - River Landscape, Scotland - 1997.44.a - Clevela...
Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Captain Linnaeus Tripe - Rangoon. View Near the Lake - 2009.86 - Cleve...
Public domain photograph of historic place, landmark, 19th-century, vintage travel, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Carleton E. Watkins - Bridal Veil, Yosemite - 1992.12 - Cleveland Muse...
In the 1850s, Carleton Watkins took up landscape as a field photographer, providing clients with views they could use to settle property disputes. He made his first trip to Yosemite in 1861 and returned many t... More
Carleton E. Watkins - The Domes, from the Sentinel Domes, Yosemite - 2...
Although prolific in all types of commercial photography, Carleton Watkins was best known for his majestic images of Yosemite Valley. He first transported his mammoth-plate camera there in 1861 and returned man... More
Carlo Ponti - View of Venice - 1988.214 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Picryl description: Public domain image of a canal, barge, historic place, water reflection, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Charles Clifford - Courtyard, Alhambra - 1999.113 - Cleveland Museum o...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Charles Leander Weed - Yosemite Valley from Mariposa Trail - 2002.43 -...
In 1859, Charles L. Weed made the first photographs of the wild and breathtakingly beautiful Yosemite region in California. These pioneering photographs spoke of the area's splendors to future visitors and arti... More
Charles Marville - Opéra (Rostral Column) - 2006.6 - Cleveland Museum ...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Charles Soulier - Silenus Holding the Child Dionysus, Louvre Museum, P...
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Charles T. Scowen - Rubber Tree, Assam, India (Ficus Elastica) - 1993....
Picryl description: Public domain image of trees, forest, park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Clarence H. White - Julia Hall McCune - 1980.135 - Cleveland Museum of...
White was a pioneer of the American pictorialist vision. For more than 25 years, he helped shape the style and, by extension, the direction of 20th-century photography through his work as a practitioner, leader... More
Clarence H. White - Julia Hall McCune - 1980.139 - Cleveland Museum of...
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Clarence H. White - On the Porch (Julia Hall McCune) - 1980.133 - Clev...
Public domain photograph related to the history of Russia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Col. Alfred Capel-Cure - South Side Beverley Minster - 1991.291 - Clev...
Public domain image of a cathedral or church building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Col. Thomas Biggs - Tank and Temples at Bunshunkuree - 1992.221 - Clev...
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Colin Murray - View of Hills near Mahabaleshwar - 2018.12 - Cleveland ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain landscape, rocks, mountains, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
David Octavius Hill (British, 1802-1870), Robert Adamson (British, 182...
In 1843 Hill and Robert Adamson formed a partnership and established a studio at Rock House, Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland, where Adamson was in charge of photographing and the chemical processes and Hill wa... More
David Octavius Hill - James Nasmyth (1808-1890) - 1987.19 - Cleveland ...
Among the earliest photographers to explore both the artistic and societal possibilities of the portrait were the painter David Octavius Hill and engineer Robert Adamson, partners for just three years before Ad... More
David Octavius Hill - St. Andrews Castle, from the Southeast - 1997.14...
This photograph is from a body of work created in 1846 by the pioneering Scottish photographers David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. Their ambitious campaign to record the principal buildings and sites of t... More
Davis Brothers - Twin Babies - 2003.302 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Color photography was not widely available until the 20th century, but 19th-century photographs could be embellished with hand-applied paints or dyes for an extra charge. Hand coloring, often done by women, usu... More
Dimitri Constantin - Temple of Athene, Cape Sunium, Greece - 2008.120 ...
Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Eadweard J. Muybridge - "Dread" Trotting - 1978.97 - Cleveland Museum ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of Eadweard Muybridge's photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic s... More
Eadweard J. Muybridge - Untitled (Landscape near Watsonville, Californ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of Eadweard Muybridge's photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic s... More
Eadweard J. Muybridge - Yosemite Falls - 1974.47 - Cleveland Museum of...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a waterfall, water stream, cascade, nature site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Ernest de Caranza - Fountaine de la Sophie, Constantinople - 2001.148 ...
Arriving in Istanbul (then Constantinople) in 1852, Ernest de Caranza, a French factory engineer, took many photographs during his extensive travels on scientific missions throughout the Asiatic part of the Ott... More
Eugène Atget - Mullein in Bloom - 2007.26 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Atget produced architectural details, views of historic Paris, landscapes, and botanical images for use by painters and illustrators. Despite being a product of the 19th century, he was greatly admired by the a... More
F. Chabrol - Roman Aqueduct, Beaunant, France - 1995.233 - Cleveland M...
Picryl description: Public domain image of ruins, historic place, landmark, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
F.D. - At Raglan Castle - 1988.240 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Farnham Maxwell Lyte - Church Interior - 1997.41 - Cleveland Museum of...
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Farnham Maxwell Lyte - Eaux-Chaudes, Pyrenees (verso) - 1995.180.b - C...
Public domain photograph of mountain view, valley, mountain range, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Farnham Maxwell Lyte - Road to Eaux-Chaudes, Pyrenees (recto); Eaux-Ch...
Public domain image of an arch structure, bridge, historic place ruins, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Felice A. Beato - Japanese Temple Graveyard, Shuntoji, Nagasaki - 1974...
Picryl description: Public domain image related to Hindu, India, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Francis Bedford - Balbec - 1992.227 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, funeral, burial, monument, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Francis Frith & Co. - Ajinta Cave No. 19 - 2015.36 - Cleveland Museum ...
Public domain photograph of organ, keyboard instrument, church, gothic architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Francis Frith & Co. - Trichinopoly Horse Court - 2015.37 - Cleveland M...
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Francis Frith - Kom Ombo - 1986.193 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Frith often emulated the drawings of David Roberts in selecting monuments to illustrate and positions from which to shoot. Both artists encountered the temple at Kom Ombo still more than halfway buried in sand.... More
Francis Frith - The Pyramids of Saqqara, from the Northeast - 1996.19 ...
Frith was the first photographer in Egypt to successfully use the wet collodion process, introduced in 1851. Its glass plate negatives yielded sharper, more detailed images than paper ones. He even created mamm... More
Frank Jay Haynes - Hell's Half Acre, Prismatic Springs - 1992.242 - Cl...
Frank Jay Haynes was a photographer of life in the American West and the early days of Yellowstone National Park. Arriving in Yellowstone in the 1880s, he accompanied expeditions into the park, serving as offic... More
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe - Untitled (Harbor Scene) - 1992.329 - Clevelan...
Public domain photograph of a canal, water landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe - Whitby Harbor - 1996.244 - Cleveland Museum o...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a harbor, sailing ship, boat, city building, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Frederick Fiebig - Mosque, Madras - 2007.200 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Frederick H. Evans - Bourges Cathedral- Crypt Under Nave - 1984.216 - ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a relief sculpture, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Frederick H. Evans - Chateau Montesquieu - 1987.26 - Cleveland Museum ...
Frederick H. Evans is recognized as the foremost architectural photographer of his day. A vocal defender of "straight" or unmanipulated photography, Evans was obsessed with technical and aesthetic perfection an... More
Frederick H. Evans - Ely Cathedral, Nave, Southwest Corner - 1987.27 -...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a religious building interior, church, cathedral, hall, 17th, 18th, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Frederick H. Evans - Gloucester Cathedral - Cloisters- South and West ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a religious building interior, church, cathedral, hall, 17th, 18th, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Frederick H. Evans - Westminster Abbey, Tomb of Sir Georges Villiers (...
Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, coffin, funeral, burial, monument, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Félix Bonfils - Damas. Intérieur de Maison. Consul Anglais (Syrie) - 2...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
G. B, Gething - Vale of Neath - 1993.33 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Picryl description: Public domain image of a waterfall, water stream, cascade, nature site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
George K. Warren - A Road in Williamstown - 2008.176 - Cleveland Museu...
Public domain photograph of mountain view, valley, mountain range, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
George N. Barnard - Rebel Works in front of Atlanta, Georgia, No. 5 - ...
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Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (de Boulogne) - Figure 32- Rire natu...
Duchenne embarked on the first scientific, systematic exploration of the physiology of human facial expression and hoped, through photographs of the experiments, to teach artists how to portray those emotions. ... More
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (de Boulogne) - Figure 45- Contracti...
Duchenne embarked on the first scientific, systematic exploration of the physiology of human facial expression and hoped, through photographs of his experiments, to teach artists how to portray those emotions. ... More
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (de Boulogne) - Figure 51- À droite,...
This photograph is part of the first systematic exploration of the physiology of human facial expression. In order to demonstrate how each individual muscle contributed to creating an expression, Duchenne stimu... More
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (de Boulogne) - Figure 54- Abaisseme...
Duchenne described this model, a former shoemaker, as “an old, toothless man, with a thin face, whose features, without being absolutely ugly, approached ordinary triviality.” When criticized for using such an ... More
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (de Boulogne) - Figure 7- Étude du m...
Duchenne embarked on the first scientific, systematic exploration of the physiology of human facial expression and hoped, through photographs of his experiments, to teach artists how to portray those emotions. ... More
H.N. Roberts - Francis Wayland Sherman at the Age of 2 Years 10 Months...
An inscription on the back of this photograph records the sitter’s identity and age. Because he belonged to a prominent family, it was possible to learn through research that he grew up in Ludlow, Vermont, the ... More
Harrison(?) - Allegorical Study of a Woman - 2003.305 - Cleveland Muse...
Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Henri Béchard - Thebes, The Colossi of Memnon - 2006.119 - Cleveland M...
As more photographers shot the same monuments,depictions became formulaic.Numerous photographers produced almost identical images,as demonstrated in these two views of the Colossi of Memnon. Shot from different... More
Henri Le Secq - Plaster Cast from the Depaulis Collection - 1999.7 - C...
Henri Le Secq was one of the most gifted early photographers to record architecture and sculpture. This stunning image is from a small, rare group of photographs of the collection of Alexis-Joseph Depaulis (179... More
James Anderson - Arch of Constantine, Rome - 1987.133 - Cleveland Muse...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
James Anderson - Venetian Palace - 1993.123 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Picryl description: Public domain image of a palace, villa, or large historic building, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.