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Public domain art of the day: "Wandered Down to the Sea-Shore" - book illustration by Walter Crane (1886)

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Sources:

https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/princess-wandered/

https://archive.org/details/Crane1

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Definitely. That's one reason I'm making a daily effort to share public domain art on the purple app: it's one small thing I can do to help it reach people who might appreciate it enough to contribute to curation + preservation efforts and such.

If not for that Old Book Illustrations site, I wouldn't have even known this beautiful illustration existed.

Does it ever make you sad to think we will probably just lose track of a lot of these old illustrations?