Public Domain Drawing of a Sleeping Cat

Public Domain Drawing of a Sleeping Cat

Here a ball of fur called a Cat.
Cats noses can be different colors.
The color of a cats nose relates to the color of it's fur.

Black cats have black noses and white cats have pink noses.
An orange cat will have an orange nose and
a multicolored cat can have a multicolored nose!
Some kitties even have freckles on their noses!

Image Source:
RIJKS Museum
Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam, Netherlands
©: listed as Public Domain with CC1.0 license
More information about CC1.0 can be found here:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en

Three Kitty Cats

 

 Three Kitty Cats

 Three Kitty Cats sitting tall and pretty.
They all appear to be looking at the same thing in front of them.
Perhaps they are discussing who is going to catch what they are watching!

Source:
RIJKS Museum
Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam, Netherlands
©: listed as Public Domain with CC1.0 license
More information about CC1.0 can be found here:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en

Vintage ad with Dancing Girls

 Five Dancing Girls Vintage Ad 

 This antique / vintage ad was the front piece of a card advertising dog biscuits.
The ad served as a learning card for a musical term.
Since the card was about something of interest to potential customers
(educating their children in the finer points of music);
the back of the card advertising dog biscuits would have a good chance of being noticed.

The musical term for this card is "Decrescendo" - A decrease in loudness of a piece of music.
The memory aid is a dancing line that starts with a woman and decreases in height with girls that are smaller and smaller until the line ends with two little kitties with the cat at the end being the smallest.

 Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BE, United Kingdom
©: listed as Public Domain CC mark 1.0
CC Mark 1.0 info can be found here
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Poster with Cats on a Tan Background

Poster with Cats on a Tan Background

 You don't even have to be a cat person to like this poster!
This is printed on a Tan Cream background so it will print well on cream or eggshell colored papers.

Source: The Art Institute of Chicago
©: Listed as Open Access, Public Domain with CC0 license

Spoiled Cat Being Fed by a Woman

Woman Sitting with a Cat nearby

A Lady of refinement is seated indoors. She is feeding an overweight Cat.
The image is is Black and White with touches of Light Blue.

   This image works well with
Woman Sitting in Garden with a Little Dog

Source: The Art Institute of Chicago
©: Listed as Open Access, Public Domain with CC0 license

Mom Cat watching Kittens Play with Ball of Yarn

 

Cat watching her Kittens Play

Moma Cat looks a little startled! Maybe it's because one of the kitties is playing with the curtain!

This could be made into interesting ephemera by printing it out on card stock and cutting around the outline of the kitties.
You wouldn't need to cut the whole shape of the cats out; just cut enough to get the
shape of the heads and ears of mom and the kitten on the right.

Source: National Gallery of Art
Sited as Public Domain, with
Open Access under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license

Cat Playing Piano

 

 

Cat Playing Piano

This is a cute picture as it is. Or, crop in closer on kitty for even better image.

Add tiny hearts or stars and musical notes around with thin wispy curves and 

swirling trails as if they're sounds coming from the piano.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Source: Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license

Here is the same image cropped

(also released with CC0 / Public Domain)

Fat Tabby Kitty Cats

Fat Tabby Kitty Cats

Wonderful Happy Tabby kitties! Even includes the bottoms of their little feetsies!

 Sooo... cute! These Prints will make great Ephemera.

 Their simple outlines should be easy to set up for making stickers.

Or print them on your home printer for easy "fussy cuts" (Hand cutting with scissors).

Simple coloring pages can be made by just turning them into grayscale images.

 

 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Source: Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license

 

Dancing, Visiting, and their Cat

Dancing, Visiting, and their Cat

This long banner has several images that can be separated out for use to 

make a connecting theme through a project. Some examples are included below.

Source: Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license

Some Samples of Images Included in the above Photo
(also under CC0 / Public Domain)