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Free Vintage Images of Llamas

There's no strategy, not common style here, these are simply a collection of free, public domain (to the best of my knowledge), vintage images of llamas because we like llamas. Artists looking for llama reference photos may find the Smithsonian's photo of the skull useful. There is an additional view on their website. Have some llama images to share? Reach out.

  • Watercolor drawing of a woman walking with a llama, depicting Peruvian dress, ca. 1848
    Francisco (Pancho) Fierro, A woman walking with a Llama, from a group of drawings depicting Peruvian dress, ca. 1848. Watercolor. The Met.
  • Photograph in stereograph format showing llamas resting between mountain journeys at Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 1907.
    Llamas resting between mountain journeys at Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 1907. 1 photograph : print ; mount 9 x 18 cm (stereograph format). Library of Congress.
  • Graphite drawing showing figure sketches of grazing llamas and a landscape sketch of the moon over the dormant volcano El Altar in Ecuador, with hills in the foreground, an extending mountain ridge, a snowy peak in the distance, and moonlit clouds in the sky. Drawn in September 1853.
    Frederic Edwin Church, Figure sketches of grazing llamas and a landscape sketch showing a view of the moon over the dormant volcano, El Altar, in Ecuador, 1853. Graphite on tan wove paper. The Smithsonian.
  • A female Lama glama (llama) skull, collected from the Baltimore Zoo, Maryland, part of the Smithsonian's Education and Outreach collection in vertebrate zoology.
    Female Llama (Lama glama) Skull. Skull. The Smithsonian.
  • Commercial color lithograph trade card depicting a llama, from the Quadrupeds series issued in 1890 to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes.
    Llama, from the Quadrupeds series (N21) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes, 1890. Commercial color lithograph. The Met.
  • Graphite sketch of two llamas standing together, one smaller with head lowered and one taller with long neck raised, drawn in pencil on gray-green wove paper, detail from a field study near Chimborazo, Ecuador, 1853
    Frederic Edwin Church, Two Llamas, Standing (detail), 1853. Graphite on gray-green wove paper. The Smithsonian.
  • Graphite llama sketch showing two llamas from behind and in three-quarter view, with a smaller alpaca-like figure facing away on the left and a taller llama with neck raised on the right, pencil drawing on gray-green wove paper, Ecuador, 1853
    Frederic Edwin Church, Two Llamas (detail), 1853. Graphite on gray-green wove paper. The Smithsonian.
  • Figure sketch of a llama in left profile, cloaked in shaggy light brown fur with a minimally rendered shadow below, drawn in oil and graphite on brown wove paper, San Juan, Ecuador, September 1853
    Frederic Edwin Church, 1853. Oil and graphite on brown wove paper. The Smithsonian.
  • A fashion model with llamas in Cusco, Peru, photographed in November 1951 in black and white.
    Toni Frissell, Fashion model with llamas, Cusco, Peru, 1951. 1 photographic print. Library of Congress.
  • A bell-wether leading a troop of llamas through a street in Cerro de Pasco, Peru. Stereograph photograph.
    The "bell-wether" leading a troop of llamas through street at Cerro de Pasco, Peru. Library of Congress.