Public Domain Artwork: Drawings & Illustrations

This gallery features a curated collection of vintage art sketches, drawings, etchings and illustrations sourced from public domain drawings archives, art museums around the world, and the best vintage art online. Each art print here is available as free printable wall art and formatted for easy at-home printing or professional reproduction. Because everyone deserves beautiful art to print for their home.

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*The images in these galleries are low resolution preview images only and therefore not suitable for printing, to download a HIGH RESOLUTION FILE of any of the images below, simply click on the desired image and you will be taken to the digital gallery archive where that image is hosted.

QUICKLY JUMP TO YOUR DESIRED COLLECTION: Current Trending Favorites, The Ernest Haskell Tree Sketch Collection, The Sketches & Drawings Collection, The Etchings & Illustrations Collection

The current top trending vintage art sketches & sketchbook drawings in the public domain for 2025.

Leo Gestel “Schets van drie paarden (Three Horses)”
Leo Gestel “Study of various figures”
James McNeill Whistler “Nude Girl Standing”
Benjamin Robert Haydon “Portrait Study”
Jan Novopacký “Study of Coniferous Trees”
Victor Emile Prouvé “Study for the Decoration for the Salle des Fêtes for La Mairie du 11e arrondissement de Paris”
George Hendrik Breitner “Brug over de Keizersgracht te Amsterdam ter hoogte van de Berenstraat”
Carel Adolph Lion Cachet “Studies van duiven”
Francis Augustus Lathrop “Study for Diana and Her Attendants Among the Constellations”
“Three Studies of Ludovic Halévy Standing II” Edgar Degas
John Constable “A Bridge near Salisbury Court, Perhaps Milford Bridge”
Leo Gestel “Drie zwarte paarden staand naar links kijkend”

The Ernest Haskell Tree Sketch Collection

Ernest Haskell was an early 20th-century American artist known for his delicate etchings and atmospheric landscapes. Recently his moody tree sketches have become extremely popular again, with designers like Jean Stoffer prominently featuring them in their work.

Ernest Haskell “Baby Sequoia”
Ernest Haskell “Little Pitch Pine”
Ernest Haskell “The Moss Trees”
Ernest Haskell “Cypress Vale”
Ernest Haskell “Tree Top”
Ernest Haskell “Moss Bride”

The Vintage Art Sketches & Drawings Collection

A curated collection of the best free printable vintage drawings currently available online and in the public domain.

“Three Studies of Ludovic Halévy Standing II” Edgar Degas
George Hendrik Breitner “Brug over de Keizersgracht te Amsterdam ter hoogte van de Berenstraat”
Rik Wouters “Nine studies of a dog”
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner “Lying cat”
Leo Gestel “Schets van drie paarden (Three Horses)”
Leo Gestel “Study of various figures”
“Bust of a man supporting his face with his hand” Adolf Sternschuss
John Singer Sargent “Motorcycle”
Seated Boy George Bellows
Carel Adolph Lion Cachet “Studie van handen”
Leo Gestel “Study sheet with embrace”
Auguste Rodin “Seated Female Nude Leaning to the Left”
“Yvette Guilber” Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Carel Adolph Lion Cachet “Konijnen”
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy “Reclining Nude Woman”
Leo Gestel “Diverse figuurstudies op een schetsblad (Various figure studies on a sketch sheet)”
Leo Gestel “Drie zwarte paarden staand naar links kijkend”
Félix Bracquemond “The Swallows”
Jan Novopacký “Study of Coniferous Trees”
James McNeill Whistler “Nude Girl Standing”
Ladislav Mednyánszky “Study of a man”
Unknown “Woman face in three-quarter profile”
Egon Schiele “Sitzender weiblicher Torso”
Štefan Polkoráb “Sketchbook with Nudes”
John Constable “Wooded Slope with a Receding Road”
Eugène Delacroix “Crouching Woman”
Ladislav Mednyánszky “A Tree”
Louis Janmot “The Round Dance”
Joseph Martin Hoeger “Group of birch trees in the park of Seebenstein Castle in Lower Austria”
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri “Seated Nude Boy Seen from the Back”
Victor Emile Prouvé “Study for the Decoration for the Salle des Fêtes for La Mairie du 11e arrondissement de Paris”
Théodule Ribot “Cats (recto); Sketch of Two Figures Embracing (verso)”
Ján Novák “Traja starci”
Jean-Louis Forain “The Madonna and the Children”
Francis Augustus Lathrop “Study for Diana and Her Attendants Among the Constellations”
Rik Wouters “Cat Lying”
Mikuláš Galanda “Study Act”
Carl Newman “Group of Three Female Nudes 1”
Franz Barwig d. Ä. “Selbstbildnis”
Carl Newman “Seated Female Nude”
Leo Gestel “Schetsblad met drie studies van paarden”
Rik Wouters “Silhouette of a Woman”
Benjamin Robert Haydon “Portrait Study”
George Romney “Charity”
Egon Schiele “Weiblicher Rückenakt”
LOVIS CORINTH “Katzenstudie (Study of Cats)”
Cyprián Majerník “Skicár – 40 listov”
Edgar Degas “Horse and Rider”
Ľudovít Čordák “Cow Study”
Henri Fantin-Latour “Nine studies of female nudes”
Cornelia Chapin “Zoo Des Petits The Cream Color Rabbit”
Joseph Martin Hoeger “Noble Fir”
Pieter de Josselin de Jong “Lying Sleeping Dog”
Ladislav Mednyánszky “Half-lying Study”
Ladislav Mednyánszky “Figural studies 121”
Francis Augustus Lathrop “Study of a Nude Figure”
Félix Valloton “Nu de dos”
Jan van Essen “Group of standing gentlemen, with top hat and long coat”
Ladislav Mednyánszky “Study of a sitting male nude”
George Hendrik Breitner “De Wolvenstraat”
Seth Wells Cheney “House and Boat at the Shore”
Carel Adolph Lion Cachet “Studies van duiven”
John Constable “A Bridge near Salisbury Court, Perhaps Milford Bridge”
John Constable “Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows”
Edward Lear “Mountainous coastline, Corfu”
Ladislav Mednyánszky “Sitting Man”

The Vintage Illustrations & Etchings Collection

A handpicked selection of the best free printable vintage illustrations and etchings currently available online and in the public domain.

John Landseer “Cascade of Terni A Picturesque Tour of Italy”
Unknown (Swiss) “Mountainous Landscape”
Alexandre Calame “Landscape”
Dankvart Dreyer “En Hånd, Tegnet Efter Gips”
Unknown “Bookstore Au Singe qui lit in Paris”
James Ensor “The Cathedral”
William Witsen “Leidsegracht, seen from the home of art collector CD Reich Jr. at Herengracht 413”
Willem Witsen “The old Beurpoortje, Rokin:Beursplein 2-4 (”Beurspoort”)”
GEORGE MARPLES “Jackdaws of Chartres”
William Holman Hunt “Female Nude – Study from behind”
Charles F. Pinet “Gezicht op de Pont Neuf te ParijsParis le Pont Neuf”
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen “Two Cats on a Cushion”
Charles-Edouard Calame “In Longeaigue”
James McNeill Whistler “The ‘Adam and Eve’, Old Chelsea”
James McNeill Whistler “Nocturne”
Ernest Haskell “Storm Clouds”
Unknown “Grand Canyon 1895”
George Elbert Burr “Desert Sentinels, Apache Trail, Arizona”
Reinier Nooms, called Zeeman “Naval Battle Scene”
Hendrik Dirk Kruseman van Elten “Cottage by the Sea”
“Echo Lake, Morning” Francis Hopkinson Smith
Carl Wilhelm Kolbe “Study of Oak Trees (recto)”
James Abbott McNeill Whistler “Little Venice (The Little Venice)”
Gerrit Groenewegen “Two-master with flag and figures”
JOSEPH PENNELL “The City under the Black Mountain”
JOSEPH PENNELL “Road to the White City, No.II”
Pierre-Charles Canot “Bouquet with Peonies”
Pierre-Charles Canot “Bouquet with Roses”
Salvator Rosa “Three human skulls, study for “Democritus in Meditation”‘
JOSEPH PENNELL “St. Dunstan’s, Fleet Street”
Alexandre Calame “Storm in the Alps”
Edward Lear “The Capo Sant’ Angelo, Amalfi”
Greylock – Elbridge Kingsley
A Morning – Elbridge Kingsley
“Step Pyramid of Sakkara” Hermann Struck
Rembrandt van Rijn “Reclining Female Nude”

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!

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