Free Printable Fashion History Illustration for Mixed-Media Collage, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Edwardian Ladies on a Winter Walk, 1904

Leaving behind the self you once were is the shredding of the old
for you have outgrown who you once were in your skin.
Out of all this, is born the raw, real,
and unfinished self who is on the journey of becoming.
When the seasons lose their old selves just as winter turns to spring
with the moments tenderly unfolding just as dawn heralds the end of the night.
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

A vintage fashion hstory illustration from 1904. The drawing shows two Edwardian ladies out for a walk around town in their warm winter coats and fur stoles. The street seems empty of any hustle and bustle, and the two women seem content to browse the nearby shops in a leisurely manner.

This black and white engraving is from my personal collection of antique La Mode Illustrée magazines.

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Free Printable Fashion History Illustrations for Mixed-Media Collage, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Edwardian Ladies by the River 1 & 2 (1904)

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Have you also learned that secret from the river;
that there is no such thing as time?
That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth,
at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains,
everywhere and that the present only exists for it,
not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

Two vintage fashion hstory illustrations from 1904. In the first, three Edwardian ladies are resting and conversing after they have enjoyed a promenade by the river. In the background, you can see some houses on the other side of the riverbank, and there is also a little row boat gliding by. The top border of the picture is decorated with fancy floral embellishments.

In the second drawing, a trio of ladies in Belle Époque winter capes and coats are out for a walk along the waterfront of a picturesque town. A bridge and a small tower, with a few barges moving along the river can be spotted in the scene behind them.

These black and white engravings are from my personal collection of antique La Mode Illustrée magazines.

Download and use in various mixed-media collage art, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects. You can find the free high-res 8" x 10" @ 300 ppi JPEGs without a watermark here and here.


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Vintage Art Appreciation: The Ferry by Emanuel Phillips Fox

The Ferry, c1910
by Emanuel Phillips Fox (1865–1915)

About the artist: Emanuel Phillips Fox was an Australian impressionist painter. He was born on 12 March 1865 to the photographer Alexander Fox and Rosetta Phillips at 12 Victoria Parade in Fitzroy, Melbourne, into a family of lawyers whose firm, DLA Piper New Zealand still exists. He studied art at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne from 1878 until 1886 under G. F. Folingsby; his fellow students included John Longstaff, Frederick McCubbin, David Davies and Rupert Bunny.

In 1886, he travelled to Paris and enrolled at the Académie Julian, where he gained first prize in his year for design, and École des Beaux-Arts (1887–1890), where his masters included William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérôme, both among the most famous artists of the time. While at the Beaux Arts, he was awarded a first prize for painting. He was greatly influenced by the fashionable school of en plein air Impressionism.

About the painting:The Ferry is the artist’s masterpiece. It was developed from rapid sketches that Fox painted outdoors at Trouville, a favourite beach resort in the north of France, and was completed in his Paris studio the following winter. Fox positions the viewer as if peering down to the elegant boating party and immerses us in a sumptuous, genteel world of vibrant colours, luscious fabric textures and warm summer atmosphere.

Originally exhibited in Paris and London, The Ferry also influenced a younger generation of Australian modernist artists when it was exhibited in Sydney in 1913.

Sources:
[1] Original image from Google Art Project
[2] Artist description
[3] Painting description