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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Printable Victorian Illustrations for Collage, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Capes, 1890s (Set 1)

The storm starts, when the drops start dropping
When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.
― Dr. Seuss

When all is said and done, the weather and love
are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
― Alice Hoffman, Here on Earth

Two illustrations of ladies in rainy weather capes, ready for their promenades. High-res 7" x 5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here for collage, graphic design or scrapbooking projects.


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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.


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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.


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Printable Victorian Science Illustrations for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: 19th Century Clouds

All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide
like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;
but a hidden star can still be smiling
at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling
― Munia Khan

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there
that the sea and sky looked all one fabric,
as if sails were stuck high up in the sky,
or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

19th century illustrations of clouds from A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, published in 1880 by William Mackenzie. You can download these illustrations as an 8” x 12” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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Printable Vintage Illustrations: Victorian Women with Little Black Books (Set 1)

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
― Margaret Fuller

I'm rather ashamed of my plans; I make a new one every day.
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

An unbreakable mask and cunning are the keys for executing a plan flawlessly.
― Imania Margria, Eyes

Two vintage illustrations from 1892 showing Victorian women with little black books. You can download these two high-res illustrations in one 6” x 6” @ 300 ppi JPEG here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Printable Vintage Art: Reading Biedermeier Lady by Alexander von Salzmann

Reading Biedermeier Lady
by Alexander von Salzmann (1874–1934)

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
― Charles W. Eliot

I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as a 7” x 6.5” @ 300 ppi JPEG.


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Printable Vintage Illustration: A Chaperoned Tryst, 1896

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened between us earlier and I could feel something inside me break. So that was that. We were finally, finally over. I looked at him, and I felt so sad, because this thought occurred to me: “I will never look at you the same way again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.”
I couldn’t even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who he’d always been. He’d never lied about that. He gave and then he took away. I felt it in the pit of my stomach, the familiar ache, that lost, regretful feeling only he could give me. I never wanted to feel it again. Never, ever. Maybe this was why I came, so I could really know. So I could say good-bye. I looked at him, and I thought, “If I was very brave or very honest, I would tell him.”
I would say it, so he would know it and I would know it, and I could never take it back. But I wasn’t that brave or honest, so all I did was look at him. And I think he knew anyway. “I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.” I was the one to look away first.
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

Antique illustration of a Victorian lady having a tryst with a handsome gentleman in military costume while accompanied by a strict chaperon; originally published 1896. You can download the high-res illustration as an 12” x 7” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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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 illustration of a Victorian lady lost in reverie from 1896. 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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