Free Printable Fashion History Illustration for Mixed-Media Collage, Papercrafts, Scrapbooking or DIY Wall Art: Victorian Ladies on an Early Spring Walk, 1867

Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

A vintage fashion illustration from the March 1867 issue of Peterson's showing four young women going for an early spring walk.

You can download the free high-res 8" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here for use in a collage, junk journal projects, embellishing scrapbook pages or simply print for tabletop and wall art.

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Free Printable Fashion History Illustration: Edwardian Lady in Purple and Yellow Travel Outfit, 1904

There’s something about arriving in new cities,
wandering empty streets with no destination.
I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.
Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: In Search for The Great Perhaps

A vintage fashion illustration from 1904 showing an Edwardian lady wearing a beautifully made purple and yellow travel outfit. For additional flourish, she is carrying a spectacularly luxurious muff.

Original illustration found in my personal collection of La Mode Illustrée. You can download the free high-res 8" x 12" @ 300 ppi JPEG without any watermark for cardmaking, collage, crafting or scrapbooking projects by clicking here.

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19th Century Public Domain Poetry: Varieties in Verse from 1867

These two verses were originally published in either the May or June 1867 issue of Godey's (the book is falling apart so the pages are jumbled together). The verses were translated into English from Italian and French, respectively. I am not quite sure if the translations were accurate as the poems seem to be missing something?

The Italian verse reads:
With joyful notes birds greet the spring,
And fairest flowers their odors fling;
But wicked love pretends to sigh
'Cause the fair things so soon must die.
Poor child! cries spring, thy happiest hours―
Will they last longer than my flowers?

The French verse is called "With a Lock of Gray Hair" and goes like this:

Despise it not because 'tis gray,
Nor cast the gift with scorn away.
It tells of love as warm and true
As ever youthful bosom knew;
But, purer far than love of youth,
It needs no blush to own its truth,
Nor faltering tongue a love to tell,
Such as might angels' bosoms swell.

You can download the verses on the original book paper as a free high-res JPEG without a watermark here. Lovely as a a vintage scrap to embellish a card, collage, junk journal or scrapbook page.

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