Printable Vintage Art: The Young Duchess by John Faed

The Young Duchess, 1870
by John Faed (1819–1902)
Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.
― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

Life has a tendency to provide a person with what they need in order to grow. Our beliefs, what we value in life, provide the roadmap for the type of life that we experience. A period of personal unhappiness reveals that our values are misplaced and we are on the wrong path. Unless a person changes their values and ideas, they will continue to experience discontentment.
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

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


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

Printable Vintage Illustrations: Victorian Women with Offerings (Set 1)

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
― Charles Dickens

If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

Illustrations of two Victorian women, one with a small bowl of offering in her hand, the other with a small cup. You can download these two high-res illustrations in one 6” x 6” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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Printable Vintage Advertising: Skates, Silver Polish and Silver Handle Embroidery Needle, 1904

“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really.
What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that,
and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

Originally published in the January 1904 issue of The Delineator. Here are three ads for skates from Barney & Berry, silver polish by Electro Polish, and recruitment for agents to sell the Silver Handle Embroidery Needle.

You can download the high-res illustration as a 4” x 9” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


For personal use only. Not for resale. All digitized work by The Real Victorian is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Please cite RealVictorian.com as your source when sharing or publishing.