Printable Victorian Illustrations for Collage, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Five Ladies in Summer Hats, 1896

The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change.
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles... these things fill men's hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul.
― Roman Payne

Illustration of five Victorian ladies in summer hats plus two bonus illustrations of fleeting summer scenes; originally published 1896. You can download this high-res collage sheet as an 11” x 8.5” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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