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),
downloadable as a 25" x 18" @ 300 ppi JPEG

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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.
Grungy 4" x 5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.
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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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