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A painting from a museum that shares its open collection, with room around it.

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Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Wheat Field with Cypresses by Vincent van Gogh, 1889. Oil on canvas
Vincent van Gogh. Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1993. Open access (CC0). View it at the museum.

Van Gogh painted this field in Saint-Rémy in 1889, cypresses rising over the wheat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art shares it as open access, so it can be shown here whole.

William Blake’s relief etching of The Tyger, a tiger under a tree, from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy L, 1795

A poem in the public domain

The Tyger

William Blake · 1794

Read the poem

William Blake, 1795. Public domain. British Museum copy, via Wikimedia Commons.

Every picture on this shelf is free to show. The cover is from the Open Library. The poem is in the public domain. The painting is open access from the museum named under it.

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