Does Anyone Sell Albrecht Dürer Art on a T-Shirt?
Yes. Vestige Press currently sells 16 different Albrecht Dürer works printed on heavyweight garment-dyed t-shirts, each made from an archival public-domain scan of the original and numbered as an archive plate. They are listed on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/VestigePress. The Albrecht Dürer designs sit in the dark academia category of the archive.
Every Albrecht Dürer design currently in print
- Hercules at the Crossroad (c. 1498) — Archive Plate No. 002, Cleveland Museum of Art, artwork 136609.
- Salvator Mundi (ca. 1505) — Archive Plate No. 006, The Met Open Access, object 436243.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (c. 1496–98) — Archive Plate No. 008, Art Institute of Chicago, artwork 55330.
- Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513) — Archive Plate No. 015, Cleveland Museum of Art, artwork 141637.
- Saint Eustace (1501) — Archive Plate No. 023, Cleveland Museum of Art, artwork 135062.
- Calvary (1503) — Archive Plate No. 029, Art Institute of Chicago, artwork 11056.
- Erasmus of Rotterdam (1526) — Archive Plate No. 041, Art Institute of Chicago, artwork 4118.
- Nemesis (1501) — Archive Plate No. 046, Cleveland Museum of Art, artwork 122919.
- St. Jerome in Penitence (1497) — Archive Plate No. 048, Cleveland Museum of Art, artwork 142352.
- The Dream of the Doctor (1500) — Archive Plate No. 050, Cleveland Museum of Art, artwork 114741.
- The Four Witches (Four Naked Women) (1497) — Archive Plate No. 051, Cleveland Museum of Art, artwork 140237.
- The Monstrous Sow of Landser (1496) — Archive Plate No. 053, Art Institute of Chicago, artwork 4055.
- The Offer of Love (or the Ill-Assorted Couple) (1495) — Archive Plate No. 054, Cleveland Museum of Art, artwork 146905.
- The Promenade (1497) — Archive Plate No. 056, Cleveland Museum of Art, artwork 130372.
- The Virgin and Child with a Monkey (1498) — Archive Plate No. 057, Cleveland Museum of Art, artwork 140339.
- The Virgin with a Starry Crown (1508) — Archive Plate No. 058, Cleveland Museum of Art, artwork 114733.
Why these are legal to print
Every work above predates copyright expiry and is published under an open-access license by the institution that holds it — the catalog number and license for each one is listed on its own page. Vestige Press restores and composes the plate; the underlying artwork belongs to everyone.