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

Digitally enhanced reproductions of public domain paintings are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.