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.
Ema Spencer - Portrait of Clarence H. White (1871-1925) - 1980.174 - C...
A native of Newark, Ohio, Spencer was a talented photographer who received national and international recognition for her work created in the prevailing Pictorial style. As a founder of the Newark Camera Club, ... More
Ema Spencer - Portrait of Julia Hall McCune (1882-1971) - 1980.175 - C...
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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
Etienne Carjat - Untitled (Portrait of a Man) - 2017.8.1 - Cleveland M...
Celebrated Parisian portrait photographer Etienne Carjat established his reputation through celebrity portraiture but his mainstay was images of middle- and upper-class sitters like this couple, presumably husb... More
Etienne Carjat - Untitled (Portrait of a Woman) - 2017.8.2 - Cleveland...
Celebrated Parisian portrait photographer Etienne Carjat established his reputation through celebrity portraiture but his mainstay was images of middle- and upper-class sitters like this couple, presumably husb... More
Eugène Atget - Fountain of the L'École Polytechnique - 1985.116 - Clev...
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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
Eugène Atget - Nymphéa - 2002.69 - Cleveland Museum of Art
A prolific Parisian artist who enjoyed a three-decade career, Atget was one of the most important and original photographers active at the beginning of the 20th century. This sparkling landscape of a mass of wh... More
Eugène Atget - Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève - 1985.115 - Clevel...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic city, cityscape, street view, buildings, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Eugène Atget - The Park at Sceaux April 1925, 7a.m. - 2002.68 - Clevel...
After the turn of the 20th century, Atget began to photograph many of the magnificent châteaux and parks surrounding Paris. This photograph is from a series taken of the abandoned estate and garden at Sceaux in... More
Eugène Atget - Versailles, Fountain of Enceladus - 1985.117 - Clevelan...
Taken in his later campaign of photographing at Versailles during the 1920s, Atget magically--through his ingenuous composition and use of light and shade--captured the pathos and expressive vigor of Gaspard Ma... 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...
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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 A. Rinehart - Cloud Man (Assinaboines) - 1997.243 - Cleveland Mu...
Public domain photograph related to Israel, Jewish history, Jews, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Frank Jay Haynes - Cinnabar Mountain, Devil Slide - 1993.217 - Clevela...
A gifted photographer, both aesthetically and technically, Haynes skillfully composed the various elements in this mammoth plate print depicting an expansive, arid landscape with the Cinnabar Mountains in the b... 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 - Battlefield of New Hope Church, Georgia, No. 2 - 1...
From the medium’s beginnings in the 1830s through the 1880s, most photographs were intimately scaled objects meant for the hand, the album, and the home. As the medium began being used to document landscapes an... More
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
Henry Peach Robinson - Dawn and Sunset - 1998.105 - Cleveland Museum o...
Henry Peach Robinson was a pioneer in the "combination printing" technique, employing a number of negatives to make one photographic print. Keenly interested in portraying picturesque narrative scenes and lands... 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.
James Campbell of Strachathro - View of Tullichewan Castle, Glasgow - ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a castle, view, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
James Fitzallen Ryder - Industrial Buildings (Reflected in Erie Canal,...
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James Knight - Evening - 1996.239 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Picryl description: Public domain image of a river, water stream, lake or pond, park or forest, natural landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
James Robertson - Temple of Jupiter Olympius - 2009.421 - Cleveland Mu...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a romantic landscape with ruins, historical building, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
James Robertson - Well of Joab, Jerusalem - 1998.157 - Cleveland Museu...
This charming view of the Well of Joab resulted from the pioneering photographic collaboration of James Robertson and his brother-in-law, Felice Beato, while on a trip to the Near East in 1857. Their high quali... More
James Valentine - The Royal Stag - 1992.333 - Cleveland Museum of Art
One of the earliest photographs in this exhibition, James Valentine’s Royal Stag possesses a rare spontaneity, both for photographs of this period and for still-life images in general. In photographing a royal ... More
John (British) Stuart - Locomotive - 1991.276 - Cleveland Museum of Ar...
Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
John Beasley Greene - The Sphinx - 2009.277 - Cleveland Museum of Art
The son of a wealthy banker, Greene was an American but born and raised in Paris. At a young age, he became an avid archaeologist focusing on the Middle East. Before embarking on his first trip to Egypt in 1853... More
John Dillwyn Llewelyn - Rocks at Livermead near Torquay (England) - 19...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain cliff view, natural rocky landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
John Dillwyn Llewelyn - The Country Bridge (Staplylton Bridge, Bristol...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch bridge, stone structure, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
John Hamilton Craigie - L.D. Campbell's Tomb (verso) - 1987.21.b - Cle...
Picryl description: Public domain image of ruins, historic place, landmark, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
John Hamilton Craigie - Partridges (recto); L.D. Campbell's Tomb (vers...
N. Baily carefully arranged a simple composition of two partridges hanging by a thin rope against a plain wood wall. Like many photographers in the 1850s and 60s, he was interested in displaying the camera’s ab... More
John K. Rose - Runs Medicine, Arapahoe - 2000.38 - Cleveland Museum of...
Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
John Murray - Taj Mahal, Back View of the Rest-House, with Figure - 19...
Although Dr. John Murray enjoyed a distinguished medical career as a surgeon, administrator, and leader in the fight against cholera, he is now best known for his superb paper negative photographs of India. Hav... More
John Murray - Taj Mahal, Back View of the Rest-House, with Figure - 19...
Although Dr. John Murray enjoyed a distinguished medical career as a surgeon, administrator, and leader in the fight against cholera, he is now best known for his superb paper negative photographs of India. Hav... More
John Murray - Taj Mahal, Back View of the Rest-House, with Figure - 19...
Although Dr. John Murray enjoyed a distinguished medical career as a surgeon, administrator, and leader in the fight against cholera, he is now best known for his superb paper negative photographs of India. Hav... More
John R. Johnston - John R. Johnston with Painting - 2002.39 - Clevelan...
This compelling self-portrait and the adjacent candid picture of his wife are the most significant and moving images in Johnson's personal photography album containing work by him and other distinguished photog... More
John R. Johnston - Mrs. John R. Johnston - 2002.38 - Cleveland Museum ...
Active in the worlds of theather and music, Johnson was also a distinguished portrait painter, a remarkable photographer, and one of the supreme colorists of photographs. By the mid 1850s, he resided in Baltimo... More
John Stewart - The Good Waters - 2009.87 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
John Stewart - View Along the Route to Luz, Portugal - 1995.235 - Clev...
Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
John Thomson - View of the Great Wall, China - 1996.248 - Cleveland Mu...
Public domain photograph of mountain range, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Joseph Lawton - The Paranirvana of Buddha, Gal Vihara, Polonnaruva, Ce...
The Buddha's death is called the parinirvana, which signals the moment when he moves into an eternal blissful state, free of any suffering or future rebirths. This state, known as nirvana, is the ultimate goal ... More
Josiah Johnson Hawes - A Bride and Her Bridesmaids - 1999.171 - Clevel...
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
Julia Margaret Cameron - Julia Jackson - 2015.15 - Cleveland Museum of...
One of the greatest portrait photographers of the Victorian period, Julia Margaret Cameron produced haunting images that transcended physical description, mirroring the inner lives of her subjects. This photogr... More
Julia Margaret Cameron - Julia Jackson Duckworth (1846-1895) - 1996.34...
Julia Jackson, the artist’s niece, namesake, goddaughter, and favorite model, is shown at age 21, a few weeks before her wedding. Cameron’s usual soft focus here imparts a sense of becoming, appropriate to this... More
Julia Margaret Cameron - Sir John Herschel (1792-1871) - 1996.345 - Cl...
Herschel, a renowned British mathematician, scientist, and innovator in photographic chemistry, was not just Cameron’s friend; she regarded him as “a Teacher and High Priest.” She wrote that when such great men... More