Printable Vintage Art: Suspense by Charles Burton Barber

Suspense, 1894
by Charles Burton Barber (1845–1894)

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense.
You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.
― Sidney Sheldon

The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.
― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia
[2] The Real Victorian's enhanced version of the public domain painting seen above,
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Cold Weather Capes, 1893

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
― Friedrich Nietzsche

We are like islands in the sea,
separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
― William James

Ladies in cold weather capes gathered in conversation. High-res 6" x 4" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Printable Vintage Art: A Trio of Ladies Looking

And I go looking looking for you in the streets
And I never find you
I never find you at all.
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

Sources:
[1] Looking Across the Seine, 1884
by Paul Chocarne-Moreau (1855–1930)
Original image from Wikimedia
[2] The Real Victorian's enhanced version of the public domain painting,
downloadable as a 5" x 7" @ 300 ppi JPEG

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same,
but I don't think it's possible for you
to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now.
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sources:
[1] Graziella, 1878
by Jules Lefebvre (1834–1912)
Original image from Wikimedia
[2] The Real Victorian's enhanced version of the public domain painting,
downloadable as a 4" x 7" @ 300 ppi JPEG

My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.
― Dejan Stojanovic

Sources:
[1] Longing (Reverie), c1900
by Heinrich Vogeler (1872–1942)
Original image from Wikimedia
[2] The Real Victorian's enhanced version of the public domain painting,
downloadable as a 4" x 5" @ 300 ppi JPEG


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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Reading in the Playroom, 1857

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines
what you will be when you can't help it.
― Oscar Wilde

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends;
they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors,
and the most patient of teachers.
― Charles W. Eliot

A group of Victorian children fascinated by a book, 1857.
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Printable Vintage Art: Still Life with Flowers by António José da Costa

Still Life with Flowers, 1883
by António José da Costa (1840–1929)

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed,
do not be sad.
For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle
and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
― John Lennon

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions;
and thus we see magic and beauty in them,
while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia
[2] The Real Victorian's enhanced version of the painting (seen above),
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Promenade Costumes and Shoes, 1892

I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw
Or heard or felt came not but from myself;
And there I found myself more truly and more strange.
― Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone,
like an elephant roaming the jungle.
It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

Ladies in promenade costumes and shoes in the style of 1892. High-res 5.5" x 4.25" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Vintage Natural History Illustration: Butterfly Forms, 1867

No matter who you are, no matter what you did,
no matter where you've come from, you can always change,
become a better version of yourself.
― Madonna

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving,
and that's your own self.
― Aldous Huxley

19th century natural history illustrations showing a variety of butterfly forms (1867). Printable 4" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Three Veiled Ladies, 1875

Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal,
their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird.
Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person;
they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.
― Criss Jami, Healology

Like the moon shining bright
Up high with all its grace,
I can only show you at night
And hide half of my face.
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

Three veiled ladies, 1875. 5.5" x 4.25" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.
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Printable Vintage Art: A Montmartre by Paul Gavarni

A Montmartre, 1843
- Ce qui est pointu, c'est St-Eustache.
- Oui, où qu'est l'échoppe de mon honorée mère.
- A présent, suis le bout de mon doigt...à droite de l'affaire carrée,
qui est notre église...
- contre une fumée...vois-tu ce balcon qui reluit?...
- c'est ton salon...
by Paul Gavarni (1804–1866)

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia
[2] The Real Victorian's enhanced version of the illustration (seen above),
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Printable Vintage Art: Walk at Dusk by Caspar David Friedrich

Walk at Dusk (Man Contemplating a Megalith),
possibly a self-portrait, c1835
by Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840)

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.
― Albert Einstein

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia
[2] The Real Victorian's enhanced version of the painting (seen above),
downloadable as a 24" x 18" @ 300 ppi JPEG

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Printable Vintage Photo for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Lady with Falling Four-Leaf Clover, 1911

May Light always surround you;
Hope kindle and rebound you.
May your Hurts turn to Healing;
Your Heart embrace Feeling.
May Wounds become Wisdom;
Every Kindness a Prism.
May Laughter infect you;
Your Passion resurrect you.
May Goodness inspire
your Deepest Desires.
Through all that you Reach For,
May your arms Never Tire.
― D. Simone

Grungy hand-tinted vintage postcard from 1911 showing an Edwardian lady in flowered shawl with a shower of falling four-leaf clovers. Free high-res 4" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage art, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects here.


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Printable Vintage Art: On the Doorstep by Filippo Palizzi

On the Doorstep, 1859
by Filippo Palizzi (1818–1899)

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
― Elbert Hubbard

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
― Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia
[2] The Real Victorian's enhanced version of the painting (seen above),
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Printable Vintage Fashion Photos for Collage, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Parisian Afternoon Dresses, 1925

There is an hour of the afternoon
when the plain is on the verge of saying something.
It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely,
or perhaps we do not understand it,
or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
― Jorge Luis Borges

Two ladies in Jazz Age afternoon dresses from Les Modes, 1925.
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Printable Vintage Art: The Song of the Lark by Sophie Gengembre Anderson

The Song of the Lark, 19th century
by Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823–1903)

She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there's a time to change
Since the return from her stay on the moon
She listens like spring and she talks like June.
― Train, Train: Drops of Jupiter

I become ocean, mercury, silver
shimmers, fairy tales, fascinated.
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia
[2] The Real Victorian's enhanced version of the painting (seen above),
downloadable as a 10" x 8" @ 300 ppi JPEG

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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Conversation, 1850s

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue.
That's why there are so few good conversations:
due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
― Truman Capote

Two ladies having a conversation in the garden, 1859.
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Walking Dress, 1875

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
― William Shakespeare

Walking costume for the country, of blue and pink striped oxford linen, 1875.
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: The Art Lesson, 1875

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
― Edgar Degas

The art lesson, 1875
(or home toilette of gray summer silk, and grenadine of a darker shade).
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Vintage Natural History Illustration: Crested Fern (Lastrea cristata)

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
― Robert Frost

19th century botanical illustration of a crested fern (Lastrea cristata) from c1850 by British illustrator Anne Pratt (1806–1893). Printable 4" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Free Printable Fashion History Illustration for Collage, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Gilded Age Hairdressing Styles by W.J. Barker 3

Which would you rather be if you had the choice
― divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Gilded Age hairstyles from Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine from 1875. These styles were designed by W.J. Barker located at 36, Twenty-Ninth Street (four doors west of Broadway) in New York City.

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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Junk Journal, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Costume Party, 1870s

Lila had discovered that the hardest part of her charade
was pretending that everything was old hat when it was all so new,
being forced to feign the kind of nonchalance
that only comes from a lifetime of knowing and taking for granted.
Lila was a quick study, and she knew how to keep up a front;
but behind the mask of disinterest, she took in everything.
She was a sponge, soaking up the words and customs,
training herself to see something once and be able to pretend
she’d seen it a dozen—a hundred—times before.
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

Two ladies and a girl at a costume party, 1870s
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Edwardian Mother and Child at Christening, 1904

Sometimes when you pick up your child
you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands,
or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck.
This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood -
finding a piece of yourself separate and apart
that all the same you could not live without.
― Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match
Vintage fashion illustration of Edwardian mother holding an infant in christening costume. Originally published 1904. High-res 4" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects here. Larger size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Vintage Natural History Illustration: Yellow Canary (Crithagra flaviventris)

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

19th century illustration of a yellow canary (Crithagra flaviventris) in a cage
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Printable Vintage Photo for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Lady with Flower Cart, 1916

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams
and you will always look lovely.
― Roald Dahl

Make sure, as often as possible,
you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.
― Matt Haig, The Humans

Grungy vintage postcard from 1916 showing an Edwardian lady pulling a flower cart. Free high-res 4" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage art, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects here.


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Printable Vintage Art: Autumn 1905

Fall has always been my favorite season.
The time when everything bursts with its last beauty,
as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
as I have seen in one autumnal face.
― John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

Vintage illustration of a lady surrounded by autumn leaves from 1905.
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