Famous Trials

"Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Friedrich Karl Hausmann, Galilei vor dem Konzil" by Dguendel — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamburg,_Kunsthalle,_Friedrich_Karl_Hausmann,_Galilei_vor_dem_Konzil.jpg — CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); modified: cropped to the painted surface, removing a strip of the gilt frame along the top (16 px) and left (18 px) edges, re-encoded as JPEG

"Trial of George Jacobs for Witchcraft, Salem, Mass" by T. H. Matteson; postcard by Detroit Publishing Co. — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trial_of_George_Jacobs_for_Witchcraft,_Salem,_Mass_(NYPL_b12647398-75594).tiff — Public domain (painting of 1855 by T. H. Matteson (1813–1884) reproduced on a Detroit Publishing Co. postcard (series 13270, published after 1898 and before 1931): public domain in the US (published before 1931) and in the EU (painter dead since 1884; the postcard is an anonymous company publication more than 70 years old); New York Public Library scan, PD-scan); modified: cropped to the printed picture, removing the postcard's white margin and the printed caption and publisher's copyright line along the lower edge, converted from TIFF to JPEG

"Dr. John R. Neal, John T. Scopes" by Bain News Service — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._John_R._Neal,_John_T._Scopes_LCCN2014718360.jpg — Public domain (news-agency photograph by the Bain News Service, no named photographer; the negative is marked 7/10/25 (July 10, 1925). US: public domain on the ground that Bain distributed its photographs to newspapers when they were taken, which counts as publication, and this was before 1931. Risk: whether this negative was actually distributed in 1925 has not been checked; if it was never published, an anonymous unpublished US work of 1925 is protected until 120 years after creation (end of 2045). EU: anonymous work, 70 years from first making available (or, if never made available, from creation), long expired. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs, George Grantham Bain Collection, ggbain.38214, 'No known restrictions on publication' (a lead, not the basis))

"Wasserprobe (ordeal by water), drawing in the Rituale of Lambach Abbey" by Unknown author — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wasserprobe.jpg — Public domain (medieval drawing (the Commons file page dates it to the 12th century, author unknown): public domain in the US and the EU, where every term ran out centuries ago; the image is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional public-domain work, which adds no new copyright in the US (PD-Art) or in the EU (Directive (EU) 2019/790, Art. 14). The reproduction was photographed from a plate in Peter Dinzelbacher, Das fremde Mittelalter (Essen: Magnus, 2006).); modified: cropped to the drawing (x 60-1361, y 0-712 of the 1,361 x 1,599 original), removing the Latin text below it and a pencil folio mark at the top left, re-encoded as JPEG

"There is a flock of yellow birds around her head (Brandywine River Museum of Art, 2007.9)" by Howard Pyle — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:There_is_a_flock_of_yellow_birds_around_her_head.jpg — Public domain (Painting by Howard Pyle (1853-1911, per the Commons creator record), printed in Mary E. Wilkins, Giles Corey, Yeoman: A Play (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893), facing p. 46, under the same title (list of illustrations read in the University of Toronto scan, Internet Archive gilescoreyyeoman00freeuoft): public domain in the US (published 1893, before 1931) and in the EU (author dead since 1911, more than 70 years). The image is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional public-domain work, which adds no new copyright in the US (PD-Art) or in the EU (Directive (EU) 2019/790, Art. 14); marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 on Commons. The museum's own terms were not read.)