Printable Vintage Photo for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Woman in Black Taffeta Dress and Lace Shawl, c1850

Woman in Black Taffeta Dress and Lace Shawl
by Albert Sands Southworth (1811–1894) and Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901)
of Southworth and Hawes Photography Studio (active 1843–1863)

I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

All I could think about as I stood there was that sometimes life gave you a tragedy that burned everything you knew to the ground and changed you completely. But somehow, if you really wanted to, you could learn how to hold your breath as you made your way through the smoke left in its wake and you could keep going. And sometimes, sometimes, you could grow something beautiful from the ashes that were left behind. If you were lucky.
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

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


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Printable Vintage Art: Woman in the Garden by Giuseppe De Nittis

Don’t wish me happiness--
I don’t expect to be happy, but it’s gotten beyond that, somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor—I will need them all.
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh

She was like the sun,
She knew her place in the world -
She would shine again regardless
of all the storms and changeable weather
She wouldn't adjust her purpose
for things that pass.
― Nikki Rowe

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as a 9.5” x 8” @ 300 ppi JPEG.


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Printable Vintage Illustration: A Good Listener, 1892

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
― Ernest Hemingway

This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

Illustration of Victorian ladies at a social gathering; the lady in the middle quietly listening to the conversation being held by the two women on either side of her. You can download this high-res illustration as a 10” x 8.75” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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Printable Vintage Art: Woman with Dog by Pierre Bonnard

In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.
― Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Belles on Their Toes

Sometimes it doesn't matter that there was any time before this time. Sometimes it doesn't matter that it's night or day or now or then. Sometimes where you are is enough. It's not that time stops or that it hasn't started. This is time. You are here. This caught moment opening into a lifetime.
― Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as an 17.5” x 14” @ 300 ppi JPEG.


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Printable Vintage Illustration: Ladies with Documents (Set1)

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better?
To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake
- or to take no action and die slowly anyway?
― Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love

On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information
needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits.
And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over.
This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.
― Robert K. Greenleaf, The Servant as Leader
Vintage illustrations from 1890s showing three Victorian ladies mulling over/holding documents in their hands. Could be long, newsy letters or possibly contracts? They seem to be giving the women food for thought! You can download these high-res illustrations as a 7” x 11” @ 300 ppi JPEG (top) and a 9” x 6” @ 300 ppi JPEG (bottom) here.


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Printable Vintage Illustration: Victorian Ladies with Parasols 10

To hear never-heard sounds,
To see never-seen colors and shapes,
To try to understand the imperceptible
Power pervading the world;
To fly and find pure ethereal substances
That are not of matter
But of that invisible soul pervading reality.
To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul;
To be a lantern in the darkness
Or an umbrella in a stormy day;
To feel much more than know.
To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain;
To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon;
To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves;
To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets
Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching.
To be a smile on the face of a woman
And shine in her memory
As a moment saved without planning.
― Dejan Stojanovic

Vintage illustration from 1896 showing two Victorian ladies walking arm-in-arm, with one lady holding an umbrella over her shoulder. You can download the high-res illustration as an 8” x 11” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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Vintage Clipart for Collage, Scrapbooking or Papercrafts: Victorian Children 4

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Don't you find it odd,” she continued, “that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.”
― Ethan Hawke, The Hottest State

Antique illustration from the 1860s of young Victorian children in outdoor play on a warm spring day. High-res 8” x 5” @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Printable Victorian Illustration for Collage, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Victorian Lady in Plumed Hat and Ruffled Collar 1

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature, reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.
― Tiffany Madison

Antique illustration of a Victorian lady in a plumed hat and an oversized ruffled collar from 1896. High-res 7" x 9" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here for collage, graphic design or scrapbooking projects.


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