# Public Work

> Visual search across 100,000+ public-domain images

- Category: Inspiration galleries (`galleries`)
- Official: https://public.work/
- Wunderlust: https://wunderlust.xyz/r/public-work
- Image: https://wunderlust.xyz/media/public-work-poster.jpg
- Video preview: https://wunderlust.xyz/media/public-work.webm
- Added: 2026-11-06

## What it is

Public Work is a visual search engine for more than 100,000 public-domain images, such as engravings, paintings and diagrams, from collections like The Met and the New York Public Library. It is made by Cosmos.

## What it’s for

For searching historical engravings, paintings and diagrams as visual reference.

## Benefits

- More than 100,000 images from collections like The Met and the New York Public Library
- Engravings, paintings and diagrams
- Visual search

## Caveats

- The page invites you to sign up to search deeper and save results, without stating a price, and points to the terms of service for conditions of use.
- Critics question how the images' sources are credited.

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