Printable Vintage Art: Mrs. James Guthrie by Sir Frederic Leighton

Mrs. James Guthrie, c1864
by Sir Frederic Leighton (1830–1896)
I don't want to be looked at and grab attention, that's exhibitionism.. I would rather be seen more for my intelligence, for my elegance, for not being just another girl seeking attention. I don't want to catch someone's eyes because those kind of attention spans are short and easily shifted to the next exhibitionist, I would rather stay in the memory as someone who refused to be a performer yet made an impact.
― Simmal Khan

About the painting:
Frederic Leighton trained in Frankfurt, Paris, and Rome, only settling in London in 1859, where he helped introduce Continental ideas about aestheticism and "art for art’s sake." He became president of the Royal Academy in 1878. Leighton was selective about painting portraits but was sympathetic to Ellinor Guthrie (1838–1911), the daughter of James Stirling, the first governor of Western Australia. Born in Perth but raised partly in England, Ellinor married the Scottish merchant banker James Alexander Guthrie in 1856. The Guthries lived in the fashionable and affluent Portland Place in London, and, between 1857 and 1868, they had nine children. Sittings for this portrait took place after Ellinor had recovered from the birth of her fifth daughter in October 1864. In April 1865 she went into mourning when her father died, which may explain her somber, though luxurious, black dress. [Source: Google Arts & Culture]

You can download The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above) as a 4" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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Free Vintage Clipart for Altered Art, Junk Journaling, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: From Winter Into Spring

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
― Rumi

Late 19th century illustration showing a Victorian lady in a transforming landscape, from winter into spring. You can download the watercolour drawing as a high-res 10" x 8" @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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Printable Vintage Art: Girl Reading Under an Oak Tree by Winslow Homer

Girl Reading Under an Oak Tree, 1879
Winslow Homer (1836–1910)

To the loner, loneliness is a treasure that cannot be traded, even for the nicest of companies.
― Michael Bassey Johnson

I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
― Tahereh Mafi

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as a 6" x 4" @ 300 ppi JPEG.


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Printable Vintage Art: Brussels in the Rain by Gustave Den Duyts

Brussels in the Rain, late 19th century
by Gustave Den Duyts (1850–1897)

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
― Langston Hughes

You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

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


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Printable Vintage Art: The Old China Shop by Ralph Hedley

The Old China Shop, 1877
by Ralph Hedley (1848–1913)

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, “I'll try again tomorrow.”
― Mary Anne Radmacher

Defeat is only defeat if we accept it as defeat. Victory often comes after defeat, because one was too stubborn to allow it to be their reality. In the trail of any great conflict you will see the scuff marks, where the one was beaten down, but they could not be taught to stay that way.
― Tom Althouse

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


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Free Vintage Clipart for Collage, Scrapbooking or Papercrafts: Pansies for Thought

Just in case you ever foolishly forget, I'm never not thinking of you.
― Virginia Woolf

Knowledge holds the power
But It's Memory that possesses it.
― Ritu Negi
Antique illustration from 1897 of a Victorian lady dressed in Elizabethan costume playing a lute on a terrace. The image is decorated in the foreground with a clump of pansies with a caption stating "Pansies foe Thought." You can download the engraving as a high-res 8.5" x 11" @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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Printable Vintage Art: The Fierce Friend

The Fierce Friend, c1893
by Évariste Carpentier (1845–1922)

...she doesn't have to choose between being gentle or being fierce. Both exist in nature and both exist in her. That's ok. She'll know to nourish them both and when applicable, use each unapologetically.
― Steve Maraboli

Do not be afraid to bare your teeth - you were not brought into this world covered in blood to become a gentle, tamed thing.
― Nichole McElhaney

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as a 4" x 3" @ 300 ppi JPEG.


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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration: Gilded Age Hairstyles 1875

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say,
and not giving a damn.
― Orson Welles

1875 fashion history illustration of Gilded Age hairstyles by Mr. W.J. Barker of 1271 Broadway, New York. You can download the high-res illustration as an 8" x 9" @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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