Color Our Collections

Grab your crayons and colored pencils, it's time to #ColorOurCollections!

#ColorOurCollections is a week-long social media event during which libraries and archives from around the world share images from their collections and encourage you to color them in and make them your own. We've pulled all kinds of images from our collection here at the Folger, mixing 16th-century woodcuts with illustrations from Shakespeare's plays.

From February 4 – 8 , 2019, download and color any of the images we have provided here and share them with us on Twitter or Instagram @FolgerLibrary using the hashtag #ColorOurCollections. Be sure to follow us so you don't miss out on everyone else's work. We can't wait to see your creativity and vibrant interpretations of our collection!

Coloring Pages from the Folger Collections

Download the PDF in each image caption. Want to color them all? Click here to download all ten pages from Color our Collections 2016, or click here to download all seven pages from Color our Collections 2017. Click here to download all twelve images from the British Book Illustrations project. Don't forget to share your work with us on social media!

  • Engraving, from Henri Fradelle's Othello and Desdemona, 1827 Printer-friendly PDF

    Engraving, from Henri Fradelle's Othello and Desdemona, 1827
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  • Engraving, from Richard Westall's Imogen Entering the Cave of Belarius Printer-friendly PDF

    Engraving, from Richard Westall's Imogen Entering the Cave of Belarius
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  • Engraving, from James Northcote's Romeo and Juliet, Act V, Scene III Printer-friendly PDF

    Engraving, from James Northcote's Romeo and Juliet, Act V, Scene III
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  • Engraving, from R. Smirke's The Awakening of King Lear Printer-friendly PDF

    Engraving, from R. Smirke's The Awakening of King Lear
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  • Illustration by Robert Anning Bell for a 1901 edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest Printer-friendly PDF

    Illustration by Robert Anning Bell for a 1901 edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest
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  • Illustration by John Austen for a 1922 edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet Printer-friendly PDF

    Illustration by John Austen for a 1922 edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet
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  • Illustration by John Austen for a 1922 edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet Printer-friendly PDF

    Illustration by John Austen for a 1922 edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet
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  • Woodcut in The Most Excellent and Famous History of the Most Renowned Knight of the Burning Sword. London, 1693 Printer-friendly PDF

    Woodcut in The Most Excellent and Famous History of the Most Renowned Knight of the Burning Sword. London, 1693
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  • Woodcut in The country-mans recreation, or the art of planting, graffing, and gardening. London, 1640 Printer-friendly PDF

    Woodcut in The country-mans recreation, or the art of planting, graffing, and gardening. London, 1640
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  • Woodcut in The country-mans recreation, or the art of planting, graffing, and gardening. London, 1640 Printer-friendly PDF

    Woodcut in The country-mans recreation, or the art of planting, graffing, and gardening. London, 1640
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  • Design by Louis Rhead for a 1918 edition of Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare Printer-friendly PDF

    Design by Louis Rhead for a 1918 edition of Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare
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  • Woodcut in Edward Topsell, Historie of Serpents. London, 1608, page 119 Printer-friendly PDF

    Woodcut in Edward Topsell, Historie of Serpents. London, 1608, page 119
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  • Woodcut in The life and death of Griffin Flood. London, 1623 Printer-friendly PDF

    Woodcut in The life and death of Griffin Flood. London, 1623
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  • Woodcut in Cesare Vecellio, Degli habiti antichi et moderni. Venice, 1590 Printer-friendly PDF

    Woodcut in Cesare Vecellio, Degli habiti antichi et moderni. Venice, 1590
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  • Illustration by Robert Anning Bell for a 1901 edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest Printer-friendly PDF

    Illustration by Robert Anning Bell for a 1901 edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest
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  • Illustration by Robert Anning Bell for a 1901 edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest Printer-friendly PDF

    Illustration by Robert Anning Bell for a 1901 edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest
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  • Illustration by Robert Anning Bell for a 1901 Edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest Printer-friendly PDF

    Illustration by Robert Anning Bell for a 1901 Edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest
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  • Illustration by Louis Rhead for a 1918 edition of Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare Printer-friendly PDF

    Illustration by Louis Rhead for a 1918 edition of Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare
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  • Woodcut from Conrad Gessner's Historiae Animalium, 1585-1604 Printer-friendly PDF

    Woodcut from Conrad Gessner's Historiae Animalium, 1585-1604
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  • Woodcut from Barnardo Gamucci's Le Antichita Della Citta di Roma..., 1588 Printer-friendly PDF

    Woodcut from Barnardo Gamucci's Le Antichita Della Citta di Roma..., 1588
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  • Woodcut from The VVorkes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed," 1602 Printer-friendly PDF

    Woodcut from The VVorkes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed," 1602
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  • Etching with some engraving in An entire body of philosophy, according to the principles of the famous Renate Des Cartes. London, 1694 Printer-friendly PDF

    Etching with some engraving in An entire body of philosophy, according to the principles of the famous Renate Des Cartes. London, 1694
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  • Etching with some engraving in An entire body of philosophy, according to the principles of the famous Renate Des Cartes. London, 1694 Printer-friendly PDF

    Etching with some engraving in An entire body of philosophy, according to the principles of the famous Renate Des Cartes. London, 1694
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  • Engraving in Francisci Willughbeii de Middleton in agro Warwicensi, Armigeri, e Regia Societate, Ornothologiæ libri tres. London, 1676 Printer-friendly PDF

    Engraving in Francisci Willughbeii de Middleton in agro Warwicensi, Armigeri, e Regia Societate, Ornothologiæ libri tres. London, 1676
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  • Etching in Æsop's fables with his life: in English, French and Latin. London, 1687 Printer-friendly PDF

    Etching in Æsop's fables with his life: in English, French and Latin. London, 1687
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  • Etching in Pyrotechnia, or A discourse of artificiall fire-works. London, 1635 Printer-friendly PDF

    Etching in Pyrotechnia, or A discourse of artificiall fire-works. London, 1635
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  • Engraving in Partheneia sacra. Or The mysterious and delicious garden of the sacred Parthenes. Rouen, 1633 Printer-friendly PDF

    Engraving in Partheneia sacra. Or The mysterious and delicious garden of the sacred Parthenes. Rouen, 1633
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  • Woodcut in Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. or A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp. London, 1629 Printer-friendly PDF

    Woodcut in Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. or A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp. London, 1629
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  • Woodcut in Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. or A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp. London, 1629 Printer-friendly PDF

    Woodcut in Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. or A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp. London, 1629
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  • Engraving in A garden of flovvers, wherein very liuely is contained a true and perfect discription of al the flovvers contained in these foure followinge bookes. Utrecht, 1615 Printer-friendly PDF

    Engraving in A garden of flovvers, wherein very liuely is contained a true and perfect discription of al the flovvers contained in these foure followinge bookes. Utrecht, 1615
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  • Woodcut in Minerua Britanna or A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, newly devised, moralized, and published, by Henry Peacham, Mr. of Artes. London, 1612 Printer-friendly PDF

    Woodcut in Minerua Britanna or A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, newly devised, moralized, and published, by Henry Peacham, Mr. of Artes. London, 1612
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  • Woodcut in Respublica de decimis. Edinburgh, 1627 Printer-friendly PDF

    Woodcut in Respublica de decimis. Edinburgh, 1627
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  • Woodcut in The country-mans recreation, or the art of planting, grafting, and gardening, in three bookes. London, 1640 Printer-friendly PDF

    Woodcut in The country-mans recreation, or the art of planting, grafting, and gardening, in three bookes. London, 1640
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