Printable Vintage Art: A Bouquet of Poppies by the Window by Olga Wisinger-Florian

A Bouquet of Poppies by the Window, before 1926
by Olga Wisinger-Florian (1844–1926)

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.
― Veronica Roth

For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you. And when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as a 9" x 12" @ 300 ppi JPEG.


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Printable Vintage Art: Funeral Procession in the Rain by Carl Strathmann

Funeral Procession in the Rain, c1913
by Carl Strathmann (1866–1939)
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as a 10" x 7.75" @ 300 ppi JPEG.


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Printable Victorian Template (Illustrated Header): Waiting in the Parlour, 1896

If pain must come, may it come quickly.
Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible.
If he has to make a choice, may he make it now.
Then I will either wait for him or forget him.
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is “timing”
it waits on the right time to act,
for the right principles
and in the right way.
― Fulton J. Sheen
Victorian illustration of a lady waiting on a chair in a parlour from 1896.Do you think it may have been in a grand parlour such as this one?

Salon im Makartstil
by Georg Janny (1864–1935)

You can download the high-res black and white illustrated header as a 5.5” x 7” @ 300 ppi JPEG here. You can find the watercolour painting of the salon as it was originally published here or if you would like to download my digitally enhanced version, you can find it as a 10” x 6.25” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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Printable Vintage Illustration: Lost in Thought, 1896

She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be separated from other children her age. They couldn’t understand her or her imagination. She was always thinking outside of the box, breaking rules, and only following what her heart told her was right.
― Shannon A. Thompson, November Snow

There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.
― Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Antique fashion illustration from 1896 showing a Victorian lady lost in reverie. You can download the high-res illustration as an 4” x 7.5” @ 300 ppi JPEG here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Printable Vintage Art: Before the Ball by Jules-Charles Aviat

Before the Ball
by Jules-Charles Aviat (1844–1931)
Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.
― Nicholas Sparks

It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this “once in a thousand years” has come today.
― Zamyatin, We

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as a 5" x 7" @ 300 ppi JPEG.


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Printable Victorian Fashion Illustration: Lady in Summer Dress of White Muslin, 1876

‘Life and summer are fleeting,’ sang the bird. ‘Snow and dark, and the winter comes. Nothing remains the same.’
― Elyne Mitchell, Silver Brumby's Daughter

Her fragility makes her uncomfortable, but it has a familiarity, too, like the biting cold of winter that you only half forget during other seasons.
― Meg Donohue, All the Summer Girls

Antique fashion illustration from 1876 of a Victorian lady in a summer dress of white muslin. You can download the high-res illustration as a 8” x 10” @ 300 ppi JPEG here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Printable Vintage Art: Marie Pauline Galichon by Edouard Louis Dubufe

May you walk gently, friend of light, with a heart unarmored yet strong. May your kindness be your way of saying yes to life again and again — until one day you discover that your simple acts of goodness have quietly transformed the very world that once seemed so cold.
― An Marke

In art, as in love, tenderness is what gives strength.
― Oscar Wilde

Marie Pauline Galichon (1832–1904), aged 18. Married in 1853 to Count Ladislas Jules de Beaussier (1826-1892). Portrait painted in 1850 by Edouard Louis Dubufe (1819–1883).

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


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Printable Vintage Art: Under the Orange Tree by Virginie Demont-Breton

Under the Orange Tree
by Virginie Demont-Breton (1859–1935)
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven

Happiness is a frame of mind. It is a state of thinking. It is an attitude, a headset, a mentality. Happiness is a disposition and demeanor. It is a mood and sensibility. It is a philosophy, a notion, a tone, an outlook and perspective. Happiness is all of these things, none of which exist separate from me. They cannot be extracted or stolen because they constitute my very being. Therefore, happiness must be the natural essence of me.
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as an 8.5" x 11" @ 300 ppi JPEG.


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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration: Fashionable Hats for Autumn and Winter, 1870s

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
― Oscar Wilde

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
― Frederick Buechner
French fashion illustration from the 1870s showing fashionable hats (and head covering) for fall (autumn) and winter. You can download the high-res illustration as an 8" x 12" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration: Ladies' Autumn Toilette, 1878

A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes;
the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours,
the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence,
the sun growing colder like our affections,
the rivers becoming frozen like our lives
-- all bear secret relations to our destinies.
― François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe

1878 fashion history illustration of Gilded Age ladies parading their autumn toilette on the terrace of a grand mansion. You can download the high-res illustration as a 7" x 5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration: Her Sunday Best 1 (1864)

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
― L.M. Montgomery

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
― Oliver Herford

Antique fashion illustration from 1864 of a young Victorian lady dressed in her Sunday best. You can download the high-res illustration as an 11” x 8.5” @ 300 ppi JPEG here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration: A Formal Introduction 1

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do.
― Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge

Antique fashion illustration from 1896 of two Victorian ladies meeting in a formal setting. You can download the high-res illustration as an 8” x 10” @ 300 ppi JPEG here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Printable Vintage Art: Madame Memessiére et Son Fils (Mrs Memessiére and Her Son)

Madame Memessiére et Son Fils (Mrs Memessiére and Her Son)
by Joseph Paul Mesle (1855–1929)
Your son. From nought to five he is your master, from five to ten your servant, from ten to fifteen your secret counsellor, and after that, your friend - or your enemy.
― Tim Parks, An Italian Education

I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be... This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages...the delayed adolescent, the childish adult, but that they are in me to be drawn on; to forget is a form of suicide... Far too many people misunderstand what *putting away childish things* means, and think that forgetting what it is like to think and feel and touch and smell and taste and see and hear like a three-year-old or a thirteen-year-old or a twenty-three-year-old means being grownup. When I'm with these people I, like the kids, feel that if this is what it means to be a grown-up, then I don't ever want to be one. Instead of which, if I can retain a child's awareness and joy, and *be* fifty-one, then I will really learn what it means to be grownup.
― Madeleine L'Engle

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


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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration: Lady in Frosted Taffeta 1

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed.
Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding,
the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.
― Rumi

To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself
from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.
― Michael Bassey Johnson

Antique fashion illustration from 1896 of a Victorian lady in frosted taffeta. You can download the high-res illustration as a 6” x 8” @ 300 ppi JPEG here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Printable Vintage Art: Choosing by George Frederic Watts

Choosing or A Portrait of Ellen Terry, c1864
by George Frederic Watts (1817–1904)

In the end that was the choice you made,
and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it.
It matters that you did.
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

As much money and life as you could want!
The two things most human beings would choose above all
― the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely
those things that are worst for them.
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as a 9" x 12" @ 300 ppi JPEG.


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Printable Vintage Art: Under the Awning, Zarauz by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

Under the Awning, Zarauz, 1910
by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863–1923)

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
― Alexander McCall Smith

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
― Vincent van Gogh

Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do.
― Laura Pritchett

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as a 14" x 12" @ 300 ppi JPEG.


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Printable Vintage Art: The Boat Builders by Winslow Homer

The Boat Builders, 1873
by Winslow Homer (1836–1910)

The focusing power of attention never fails.
It is the secret of success.
Concentrate. Then go after what you want.
― Laeeq Peeran

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention.
This is how we cultivate mindfulness.
Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
― Jon Kabat-Zinn

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as a 12" x 7" @ 300 ppi JPEG.


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Free Vintage Clipart for Collage, Scrapbooking or Papercrafts: Saying Good-bye, 1881

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day.
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

They couldn't tell when one of them left if they would be gone for an hour, a hundred years, or forever. It made every parting somber, but they became honest for it. They meant every goodbye in a way they couldn't in life.
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Lifecycle of Suns

Antique illustration from 1881 of a young Victorian girl saying good-bye to a flock of sheep. High-res 7" x 5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Free Vintage Clipart for Collage, Scrapbooking or Papercrafts: Gone Fishing, 1893

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
― John Lubbock, The Use Of Life

Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.
― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

Antique illustration from 1893 of a Victorian family on a fishing excursion in the woods. High-res 8.5" x 11" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Printable Vintage Art: María on the Beach at Biarritz by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

María on the Beach at Biarritz or Contre-jour, 1906
by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863–1923)

When you're feeling down, always remember,
that dark days will not last for ever.
There will be sunshine after the rain,
There will be pleasure after the pain.
― Mouloud Benzadi

if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air.
― Nayyirah Waheed

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as a 7" x 5" @ 300 ppi JPEG.

Free Vintage Clipart for Collage, Scrapbooking or Papercrafts: A Summer Walk, 1904

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
― Henry James

All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

Antique illustration from 1904 showing three Edwardian ladies and a girl on a summer walk. High-res 10.5" x 10" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Free Vintage Clipart for Collage, Scrapbooking or Papercrafts: Fresh Air, 1864

When I was a child everything had its value. A lot of things; flowers, friends even a small puppy, they all had a part in my life’s value. Hard times to me meant high feed or hay prices, or too little rain for the gardens. Everything was so natural it gave me a real feeling of belonging to the earth. To have the freedom to run, jump and shout at the top of our lungs made all of us appreciate private spaces.
― Patricia Obrien, Since I Can Remember: Holding My Past in My Heart Forever

A breeze whisked across the garden, and the leaves shimmered in the sunlight as they fluttered. She inhaled the heavy scent of green, growing things--- she could smell a hint of honey within the breeze, and she didn't know which flowers it came from. Prickly bushes with pale flowers filled one corner, and shoots with balls of purple flowers towered over another. She breathed in again and thought the nobles in Alyssium would have paid fistfuls of money to smell as light and lovely as the air on Caltrey. Just breathing it in made her feel like she was waking up after a night of perfect, deep sleep. She'd never felt quite so aware of the taste and feel of the air, or of the sounds of the birds and the gentle rustle of leaves. It made her feel like she could tackle any challenge--- if only she knew exactly how.
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

Antique illustration from 1864 of Victorian children enjoying fresh air as they work in the garden. High-res 6.5" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Printable Vintage Art: The White Peonies by Théo van Rysselberghe

The White Peonies, c1914
by Théo van Rysselberghe (1862–1926)

It has been said, “time heals all wounds.” I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
― Frida Kahlo

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as a 8.5" x 10" @ 300 ppi JPEG.


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Printable Vintage Postcard: Looking Out to Sea, Atlantic City, NJ

Looking Out to Sea, Atlantic City, NJ, late 19th century
by Detroit Publishing Company (1898–1897)

Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
― Sir Richard Francis Burton

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

Sources:
[1] Original image from the New York Public Library.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the postcard (seen above), downloadable as a 12" x 7.5" @ 300 ppi JPEG.


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Printable Vintage Illustration: The Three Judges, 1896

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him.
― Michel de Montaigne

That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

1896 illustration of three sombre-looking Victorian ladies in business-like attire. You can download the high-res illustration as a 4” x 4” @ 300 ppi JPEG here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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