NYPL's Public Domain Archive. Not developed or endorsed by NYPL. Part of the World's largest public domain source PICRYL.com.

actors

public
1,654 media by topicpage 1 of 17
Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses

Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses

A black and white photo of a man in a white suit and a red and white bow tie. A photograph of a woman with her hair up. Public domain postcard scan.

Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses
Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses
Edwin Forrest, tragedian. Art print

Edwin Forrest, tragedian. Art print

Public domain illustrated book page scan, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mr. Knowles in Master Walter. Art print

Mr. Knowles in Master Walter. Art print

Public domain illustrated book page scan, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edwin Booth framed photography
Edwin Booth framed photography

Edwin Booth framed photography

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Mr. Arthur Bourchier. Cigarette Card

Mr. Arthur Bourchier. Cigarette Card

Public domain photograph of American trade card, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait / Edwin Forrest - Public domain portrait drawing

Portrait / Edwin Forrest - Public domain portrait drawing

Public domain photograph of 19th-century drawing, person, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Lillah McCarthy. Cigarette Card

Miss Lillah McCarthy. Cigarette Card

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Adele Ritchie. Cigarette Card - Public domain portrait print

Adele Ritchie. Cigarette Card - Public domain portrait print

Public domain photograph of American trade card, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses

Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Francis Wilson. Vintage American cigarette card

Francis Wilson. Vintage American cigarette card

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses

Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses

Public domain reproduction of portrait print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses
Mr. G. Bennett as King in Hamlet
Mr. Bland as Pluto, in Olympic Devils
Mr. T. P. Cooke, as the Flying Dutchman

Mr. T. P. Cooke, as the Flying Dutchman

Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mr. Creswick as Hamlet - Public domain portrait print

Mr. Creswick as Hamlet - Public domain portrait print

Public domain image of a military forces, uniform, officer, military commander, European armies, free to use, no copyright restrictions -Picryl description

Mr. Egerton as Pizzarro [Pizarro]

Mr. Egerton as Pizzarro [Pizarro]

Public domain image of a military forces, uniform, officer, military commander, European armies, free to use, no copyright restrictions -Picryl description

Victoria C. Woodhull - actors & actresses

Victoria C. Woodhull - actors & actresses

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Yuki (Snow), Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Yuki (Snow), Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Changed Lives (cinema 1915) - actors & actresses

Changed Lives (cinema 1915) - actors & actresses

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Miss Fanny Kemble as Mrs. Beverley in The Gamester

Miss Fanny Kemble as Mrs. Beverley in The Gamester

Public domain image of portrait, 18th-19th century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Mrs. S. Lane as Jacqueline - Public domain image related to music prformance, print

Mrs. S. Lane as Jacqueline - Public domain image related to music prfo...

Public domain image of portrait, 18th-19th century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Mr. Macready as Virginius the Roman Father

Mr. Macready as Virginius the Roman Father

Public domain photograph - performance, musical, dance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mr. Macready as Henri Quartre [Henry IV]

Mr. Macready as Henri Quartre [Henry IV]

Public domain image of portrait, 18th-19th century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

An oiran setting forth for a promenade accompanied by her two kamuro and a maid servant

An oiran setting forth for a promenade accompanied by her two kamuro a...

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Madam Vestris as Fatima, in Oberon

Madam Vestris as Fatima, in Oberon

Picryl description: Public domain image related to dance, musical, theater, performance, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

George Thorne as "Ko-Ko" in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company stage production The Mikado (Gilbert And Sullivan).

George Thorne as "Ko-Ko" in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company stage produ...

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

A young woman seated upon a bank getting a light for her pipe from a youth who stands bending forward toward her, on the road above.  Background of rice fields and a farmer's house

A young woman seated upon a bank getting a light for her pipe from a y...

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Lady eating, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Lady eating, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Lady writing, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Lady writing, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Toyosumi, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Toyosumi, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Seated lady with arrows, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Seated lady with arrows, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Lady kneeling on rug, writing, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Lady kneeling on rug, writing, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Boat and raft on Sumida River during a storm

Boat and raft on Sumida River during a storm

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Sake drinking at chrysanthemum time, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Sake drinking at chrysanthemum time, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print,...

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Mr. Kemble as Cato. - Public domain portrait engraving

Mr. Kemble as Cato. - Public domain portrait engraving

Public domain image of a male portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

William G. Jackman - [Tyrone Power.]

William G. Jackman - [Tyrone Power.]

Public domain reproduction of portrait print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Bernard Beere. Cigarette Card

Mrs. Bernard Beere. Cigarette Card

Public domain photograph of American trade card, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Blanche Walsh. Vintage American cigarette card

Blanche Walsh. Vintage American cigarette card

Public domain photograph of American trade card, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An oiran standing in a room looking down upon a small boy who has fallen asleep, his head upon his arms which are folded across a mill for grinding ceremonial tea.  Through an open doorway thre is a glimpse of a garden.  The wheel of a court wagon  indicates that the subject of the print is an analogue of a scene in the life of Prince Genji

An oiran standing in a room looking down upon a small boy who has fall...

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Locket with portrait of his father worn by Edwin Booth when he performed Hamlet

Locket with portrait of his father worn by Edwin Booth when he perform...

Public domain photograph of 3d object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl Description.

Signior Harlequino Pantomime, Monsieur Cacufogo Custard-Cap, Scaramouche

Signior Harlequino Pantomime, Monsieur Cacufogo Custard-Cap, Scaramouc...

Public domain photo of art print, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses

Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mr. Wallack as Dougal - Public domain portrait print
Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses

Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mr. Kean as Macbeth - Public domain portrait print

Mr. Kean as Macbeth - Public domain portrait print

Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

W.C. Macready. Art print related to American Revolution

W.C. Macready. Art print related to American Revolution

Public domain illustrated book page scan, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mr. Cooke. Art print related to American Revolution

Mr. Cooke. Art print related to American Revolution

Public domain illustrated book page scan, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

M. Fennell. Art print related to American Revolution

M. Fennell. Art print related to American Revolution

Public domain illustrated book page scan, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Letter to Emma F. Carey from Edwin Booth
Mrs. Bernard Beere. Cigarette Card

Mrs. Bernard Beere. Cigarette Card

Public domain scan of a female portrait, woman, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Playbill cover with Boris Karloff in the stage production Arsenic and Old Lace

Playbill cover with Boris Karloff in the stage production Arsenic and ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of the person with lace costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Leather bound triptych framed photographs of Edwin Booth.

Leather bound triptych framed photographs of Edwin Booth.

Public domain photograph of leather object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

James K. Hackett. Cigarette Card

James K. Hackett. Cigarette Card

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Christie MacDonald. Cigarette Card

Christie MacDonald. Cigarette Card

Public domain reproduction of portrait print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Harrigan and Hart - actors & actresses

Harrigan and Hart - actors & actresses

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Miss Fanny Kemble as Mrs. Beverley, Belvedera, Juliet and Euphrasia

Miss Fanny Kemble as Mrs. Beverley, Belvedera, Juliet and Euphrasia

Picryl description: Public domain image of portrait, 19th century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Mr. H. Kemble as Korastikan. (Second dress)

Mr. H. Kemble as Korastikan. (Second dress)

Public domain photograph related to the history of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A young girl making her toilet before a mirror and holding up another to get a view of the back wave of her hair, and behind her a youth reaches out from the behind the fusuma and tickles her foot with a stick.  Beside her is a black and white cat with a red ribbon around its neck

A young girl making her toilet before a mirror and holding up another ...

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Mr. Lewis Polworth as Harlequin
Miss Scott as Black Eye'd Susan; Mr. T.P. Cooke as William

Miss Scott as Black Eye'd Susan; Mr. T.P. Cooke as William

Public domain image of portrait, 18th-19th century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Iris and water plants, Shunsho Katsukawa, Kitao Shigemasa

Iris and water plants, Shunsho Katsukawa, Kitao Shigemasa

Shunshō first came to Edo to study haiku and painting. He became a noted printmaker of actors with his first works dating from 1760. Though originally a member of the Torii school, he soon broke away and began ... More

Ume (plum), Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Ume (plum), Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Lady arranging flowers, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Lady arranging flowers, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Seated lady reading, bedding to the left

Seated lady reading, bedding to the left

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Lady with paper and scissors, holding origami

Lady with paper and scissors, holding origami

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Walking lady; tree pattern on kimono

Walking lady; tree pattern on kimono

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Moon gazing (August), Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Moon gazing (August), Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Stock character of Roman comedy (the braggart?) and boy playing the double pipe (tibia)

Stock character of Roman comedy (the braggart?) and boy playing the do...

Public domain scan - 16th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abraham Wivell - Charles Young.

Abraham Wivell - Charles Young.

Public domain illustrated book page scan, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yuki (Snow), Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Yuki (Snow), Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Two women with wide straw hats, under a willow tree in an autumn gale. Wind-blown suzuki grass indicates the season of the year

Two women with wide straw hats, under a willow tree in an autumn gale....

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Women and children watching the flight of silkworm moths

Women and children watching the flight of silkworm moths

Shunshō first came to Edo to study haiku and painting. He became a noted printmaker of actors with his first works dating from 1760. Though originally a member of the Torii school, he soon broke away and began ... More

Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses

Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses

Public domain reproduction of portrait print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses
Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses
Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses
Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses

Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses

Public domain reproduction of portrait print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses

Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses

Public domain reproduction of portrait print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Saigon.  Acteurs Annamites. postcard

Saigon. Acteurs Annamites. postcard

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rouvière dans le role de Hamlet.

Rouvière dans le role de Hamlet.

Public domain illustrated book page scan, related to arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Thomas Abthorpe Cooper.] Art print

[Thomas Abthorpe Cooper.] Art print

Public domain illustrated book page scan, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mr. Campbell as Black Beard the Pirate
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses

Kyrle Bellew - actors & actresses

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mr. Phelps as Leonatus [in Cymbeline]

Mr. Phelps as Leonatus [in Cymbeline]

Public domain image classical or neoclassical art related to classical Roman Empire, ancient Rome, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Mr. O. Smith [aka Richard John Smith] as Baptiste in Raymond & Agnes

Mr. O. Smith [aka Richard John Smith] as Baptiste in Raymond & Agnes

Picryl description: Public domain image related to dance, musical, theater, performance, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Three women walking accompanied by a boy carrying a pot of fukujuso

Three women walking accompanied by a boy carrying a pot of fukujuso

Kiyonaga is considered one of the great masters of the full-color nishiki-e print and of bijin-ga, images of courtesans and other beautiful women. Like most ukiyo-e artists, however, he also produced a number o... More

The duet, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

The duet, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Mr. C. Kemble, as Prince Henry - Public domain portrait print
Picryl description: Public domain image of portrait, 17th-18th century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Picryl description: Public domain image of portrait, 17th-18th century...

Public domain image of portrait, 17th century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description image - Picryl description

Atsumori and Kumagai, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Atsumori and Kumagai, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Actors' (sic) Home. West Brighton, Staten Island, N.Y. [entrance gate and building]

Actors' (sic) Home. West Brighton, Staten Island, N.Y. [entrance gate ...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage New York postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Sprite - Public domain portrait painting

Sprite - Public domain portrait painting

Public domain photograph - performance, musical, dance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women cutting mulberry leaves and feeding the pieces to the young silkworms

Women cutting mulberry leaves and feeding the pieces to the young silk...

Shunshō first came to Edo to study haiku and painting. He became a noted printmaker of actors with his first works dating from 1760. Though originally a member of the Torii school, he soon broke away and began ... More

Women gathering silkworm cocoons, Shunsho Katsukawa

Women gathering silkworm cocoons, Shunsho Katsukawa

Shunshō first came to Edo to study haiku and painting. He became a noted printmaker of actors with his first works dating from 1760. Though originally a member of the Torii school, he soon broke away and began ... More

Sashie.  A group of men and women making merry upon the balcony of a joroya on the bank of the river Sumida.  Right-hand sheet of a diptych

Sashie. A group of men and women making merry upon the balcony of a j...

Kiyonaga is considered one of the great masters of the full-color nishiki-e print and of bijin-ga, images of courtesans and other beautiful women. Like most ukiyo-e artists, however, he also produced a number o... More

Previous

of 17

Next