Print Shop Drop: The Sketchbook Collection

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Introducing the SKETCHBOOK DROP! For this drop, I wanted to round out the Public Domain Print Shop‘s offerings by expanding the Drawings & Illustrations Gallery with a few of my favorite sketches currently in the Public Domain!

However, before we get into the images (bless you if you’re actually reading the text on this post and didn’t just jump right to the images), I want to leave you with a quick thought:

Sketchbooks are not finished works of art. Most of the time they were never even meant for the public eye. So taking a peek inside one is a bit like reading someone else’s dairy. What at first glance may appear messy and unfinished, is often the artist trying to capture and hold onto something fleeting and ephemeral. When experienced from this vantage point, they have the power to be one of the most emotionally charged forms of artwork, as you bear witness to their efforts to quickly capture the essence of their subject matter and the elements within it that resonated with their own soul.

I say all that because I know it’s easy to see these images just as potential decor and forget about the person behind the pencil. And just as I believe it’s important to know an artists name, I think it’s equally important (especially when looking through their sketchbooks like we are here) to always remember that there was a real live person behind each of these drawings who was so moved by the world around them that they had no choice but to try and capture it on paper. <3

With that said, say hello to the SKETCHBOOK DROP!

Victor Emile Prouvé “Study for the Decoration for the Salle des Fêtes for La Mairie du 11e arrondissement de Paris”
Leo Gestel “Drie zwarte paarden staand naar links kijkend”
Leo Gestel “Schets van drie paarden (Three Horses)”
Leo Gestel “Study of various figures”
Carel Adolph Lion Cachet “Konijnen”
Carel Adolph Lion Cachet “Studies van duiven”
Carel Adolph Lion Cachet “Studie van handen”
Cyprián Majerník “Skicár – 40 listov”
Leo Gestel “Schetsblad met drie studies van paarden”
James McNeill Whistler “Nude Girl Standing”
George Hendrik Breitner “Schetsen van cafébezoekers (Sketches of café visitors)”
George Hendrik Breitner “Schetsen van hoofden (Sketches of heads)”
Leo Gestel “Diverse figuurstudies op een schetsblad”
Rik Wouters “Lying woman, in pillows, with a book”
Ján Novák “Traja starci”
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner “Lying cat”
George Hendrik Breitner “Brug over de Keizersgracht te Amsterdam ter hoogte van de Berenstraat”
Leo Gestel “Diverse figuurstudies op een schetsblad (Various figure studies on a sketch sheet)”
George Hendrik Breitner “De Wolvenstraat”
Benjamin Robert Haydon “Portrait Study”
Thomas Robert Way “Model Seated on Floor”
George Romney “Charity”
Leo Gestel “Study sheet with embrace”
Cyprián Majerník “Still Life”
Cyprián Majerník Sketchbook – 40 sheets
Cyprián Majerník “Sketchbook – 40 sheets”
Auguste Rodin “Seated Female Nude Leaning to the Left”
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner “Tänzerinnen”
Franz Barwig d. Ä. “Selbstbildnis”
Rik Wouters “Silhouette of a Woman”
Cyprián Majerník “Sketchbook – 40 sheets”
Célestin Nanteuil “Set design for Louise Bertin’s fourth and final opera, La Esmeralda”
Théodule Ribot “Cats (recto); Sketch of Two Figures Embracing (verso)”
Rik Wouters “Nine studies of a dog”
Ladislav Mednyánszky “Sitting Man”
Cyprián Majerník
“Sketchbook – 40 sheets”

UPDATE: Since publishing this post I have greatly updated and expanded my collection of public domain drawings and sketches. Click here to explore the expanded gallery.

For more information on artwork in the Public Domain, how these vintage art sketches can be used, best practices for printing these free artwork downloads and my personal thoughts on the public domain artwork, please read the information at the bottom of my main gallery page HERE.

Please note that this is my personal curated collection of vintage drawings and only the merest drop in the bucket of what is available in the public domain. If you want to hunt for your own free printable vintage artwork in the public domain, you can find my list of favorite sources here!

Happy art my friends!

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