Color Our Collections

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

#ColorOurCollections is a weeklong event on social media during which libraries and archives from around the world share images from their collections and encourage the public to color and put their own special mark on them. Here at the Folger, we have provided images from materials in our collection for you to make your own.

From February 6 – 10 , 2017, 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!

Color Our Collections images

Browse these images to color and don't forget to share your creations with us! Download the pdf linked in each image caption. Or, click here to download them all!

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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