Printable Vintage Illustrations: Victorian Lady with Flowers in her Hair, 1868

whatever you do
be gentle with yourself.
you don’t just live
in this world
or your home
or your skin.
you also live
in someone’s eyes.
― Sanober Khan

Nothing is so strong as gentleness.
Nothing is so gentle as real strength.
― Ralph W. Sockman

1868 illustration of a Victorian lady with flowers in her hair (front and back views). You can download the high-res illustrations in one 7" x 5" @ 300 ppi JPEG here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Printable Vintage Illustrations: Sunday Morning, 1886

You never know these days. Uninvited guests may force you to take an unplanned trip to an unknown destination; doesn’t hurt to be in your Sunday clothes.
― Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow

Sundays are like confetti floating in the air in slow motion, in the evening they reach the ground and you hope a bit of wind could blow on them so they could fly a bit longer.
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, running is flying intermittently

1886 illustration of two ladies in their Sunday best. You can download the 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 Illustration: Girl on a Bench, 1896

He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully that it almost seemed as though she were gliding. He'd seen beautiful women before, though, women who caught his eye, but to his mind, they usually lacked the traits he found most desirable. Traits like intelligence, confidence, strength of spirit, passion, traits that inspired others to greatness, traits he aspired to himself.
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

1896 illustration of a girl on a bench from my own collection. You can download the high-res illustration as a 4.25" x 5.5" @ 300 ppi JPEG here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Vintage Clipart for Collage, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Reverie (1 & 2)

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way
like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking.
External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream.
Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

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
Two black and white illustrations from 1896 of young women in a daydream. You can download the high-res clipart here and here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Cold Weather Capes, 1893

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
― Friedrich Nietzsche

We are like islands in the sea,
separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
― William James

Ladies in cold weather capes gathered in conversation. High-res 6" x 4" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Reading in the Playroom, 1857

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines
what you will be when you can't help it.
― Oscar Wilde

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

A group of Victorian children fascinated by a book, 1857.
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Promenade Costumes and Shoes, 1892

I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw
Or heard or felt came not but from myself;
And there I found myself more truly and more strange.
― Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone,
like an elephant roaming the jungle.
It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

Ladies in promenade costumes and shoes in the style of 1892. High-res 5.5" x 4.25" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Three Veiled Ladies, 1875

Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal,
their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird.
Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person;
they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.
― Criss Jami, Healology

Like the moon shining bright
Up high with all its grace,
I can only show you at night
And hide half of my face.
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

Three veiled ladies, 1875. 5.5" x 4.25" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Conversation, 1850s

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue.
That's why there are so few good conversations:
due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
― Truman Capote

Two ladies having a conversation in the garden, 1859.
Grungy 4" x 5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Walking Dress, 1875

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
― William Shakespeare

Walking costume for the country, of blue and pink striped oxford linen, 1875.
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: The Art Lesson, 1875

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
― Edgar Degas

The art lesson, 1875
(or home toilette of gray summer silk, and grenadine of a darker shade).
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Free Printable Fashion History Illustration for Collage, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Gilded Age Hairdressing Styles by W.J. Barker 3

Which would you rather be if you had the choice
― divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Gilded Age hairstyles from Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine from 1875. These styles were designed by W.J. Barker located at 36, Twenty-Ninth Street (four doors west of Broadway) in New York City.

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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Junk Journal, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Costume Party, 1870s

Lila had discovered that the hardest part of her charade
was pretending that everything was old hat when it was all so new,
being forced to feign the kind of nonchalance
that only comes from a lifetime of knowing and taking for granted.
Lila was a quick study, and she knew how to keep up a front;
but behind the mask of disinterest, she took in everything.
She was a sponge, soaking up the words and customs,
training herself to see something once and be able to pretend
she’d seen it a dozen—a hundred—times before.
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

Two ladies and a girl at a costume party, 1870s
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Ladies in At-Home Dresses, 1893

“After all," Anne had said to Marilla once,
"I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those
on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens
but just those that bring simple little pleasures,
following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

Ladies in at-home dresses, 1893
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Sunday Walk, 1875

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays,
and sights become mysteriously distorted.
― Haruki Murakami

Mother and daughter on a Sunday walk, 1875
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Twin Brides on the Terrace, 1892

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me.
But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness.
On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield;
it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time
if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

Twin brides on the terrace, 1892
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: A Floral Offering 1

A Floral Offering, 1893
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: The New Ring 1

The New Ring, 1893
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Victorian Ladies in Black Promenade Costumes, 1886

Victorian ladies in black promenade costumes, 1886.
Ready to go trick or treating perhaps?
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustrations for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Victorian Ladies in Hats 2

Victorian Ladies in Hats (Set 2)
High-res 12" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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