Printable Victorian Illustrations for Collage, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Elegant Edwardian Hats, c1900

Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.
― Michael Bassey Johnson

People acted how they looked like. The reactions of the world to one’s appearance were an invisible estimation of one’s perception of themselves. The beautiful and the hideous each got treated a certain way—experiencing wildly different kinds of years. The beautiful were told phrases the hideous never heard. The beautiful struggled more with envy, while the hideous spent more time practicing courage, for things never easily bent their way. Every person accepted how they were treated and sank into that role. It showed in the way they sat. How their heads turn. When they spoke. If they spoke. Mannerisms were then not a matter of individual personality, but collective decree. Andrei would notice in a stranger all the things their body did, memorize them, and project them imaginarily on a different person. The imagined transference would never work! It seemed odd, like a miscalculation, to visualize a gorgeous Adonis walk with his head down and fidgety fingers the way a shy man did. There was undeniably a pattern of traits between strangers, courtesy of the strangers they meet.
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

Illustrations of four Edwardian ladies in elegant hats, one is modelling an especially grand embroidered hat with a crown of roses; originally published c1900. You can download this high-res antique fashion magazine page as an 8” x 11” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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Below is a fun little video tutorial that I found on Youtube about how to make your own little Edwardian hat.

Printable Vintage Art: On the Promenade by Vicente Palmaroli

On the Promenade, 19th century
by Vicente Palmaroli (1834–1896)

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I thought of you and how you love this beauty,
And walking up the long beach all alone
I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder
As you and I once heard their monotone.

Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me
The cold and sparkling silver of the sea --
We two will pass through death and ages lengthen
Before you hear that sound again with me.
― Sarah Teasdale

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Sources:
[1] Original image and provenance from auction house Dorotheum.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as an 15” x 12” @ 300 ppi JPEG.


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

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Here is an intresting video on the history of seaside vacationing
and why it became popular in the Victorian era:

Printable Victorian Illustrations for Collage, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Five Ladies in Summer Hats, 1896

The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change.
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles... these things fill men's hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul.
― Roman Payne

Illustration of five Victorian ladies in summer hats plus two bonus illustrations of fleeting summer scenes; originally published 1896. You can download this high-res collage sheet as an 11” x 8.5” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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