Printable Vintage Photo for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Woman in Black Taffeta Dress and Lace Shawl, c1850

Woman in Black Taffeta Dress and Lace Shawl
by Albert Sands Southworth (1811–1894) and Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901)
of Southworth and Hawes Photography Studio (active 1843–1863)

I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

All I could think about as I stood there was that sometimes life gave you a tragedy that burned everything you knew to the ground and changed you completely. But somehow, if you really wanted to, you could learn how to hold your breath as you made your way through the smoke left in its wake and you could keep going. And sometimes, sometimes, you could grow something beautiful from the ashes that were left behind. If you were lucky.
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

Sources:
[1] Original image from The Met.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the photo (seen above), downloadable as a 9” x 12” @ 300 ppi JPEG.


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Printable Vintage Art: Woman in the Garden by Giuseppe De Nittis

Don’t wish me happiness--
I don’t expect to be happy, but it’s gotten beyond that, somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor—I will need them all.
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh

She was like the sun,
She knew her place in the world -
She would shine again regardless
of all the storms and changeable weather
She wouldn't adjust her purpose
for things that pass.
― Nikki Rowe

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as a 9.5” x 8” @ 300 ppi JPEG.


Digitally enhanced reproductions of public domain paintings are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Printable Vintage Illustration: A Good Listener, 1892

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
― Ernest Hemingway

This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

Illustration of Victorian ladies at a social gathering; the lady in the middle quietly listening to the conversation being held by the two women on either side of her. You can download this high-res illustration as a 10” x 8.75” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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