Printable Vintage Illustration: Girl on a Bench, 1896

He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully that it almost seemed as though she were gliding. He'd seen beautiful women before, though, women who caught his eye, but to his mind, they usually lacked the traits he found most desirable. Traits like intelligence, confidence, strength of spirit, passion, traits that inspired others to greatness, traits he aspired to himself.
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

1896 illustration of a girl on a bench from my own collection. You can download the high-res illustration as a 4.25" x 5.5" @ 300 ppi JPEG here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Printable Vintage Art: East River Park by William James Glackens

East River Park, c1902
by William James Glackens (1870–1938)

Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as a 8" x 10" @ 300 ppi JPEG. Please note this is a large file of roughly 30mb.


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Printable Vintage Illustration: The Snow, 1902

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.
― e.e. cummings

Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.
― Mary Oliver

Originally a vintage ad from 1902 for Crème Simon lotion. You can see a large bottle of the face cream in the foreground on the coffee table. It is supposed to provide the best protection against snow and wind, hence the coquette standing in front of the open window.

You can download the high-res illustration as a 4.25" x 5.5" @ 300 ppi JPEG here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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