Free Vintage Clipart for Altered Art, Junk Journaling, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: From Winter Into Spring

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
― Rumi

Late 19th century illustration showing a Victorian lady in a transforming landscape, from winter into spring. You can download the watercolour drawing as a high-res 10" x 8" @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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Printable Vintage Art: Girl Reading Under an Oak Tree by Winslow Homer

Girl Reading Under an Oak Tree, 1879
by Winslow Homer (1836–1910)

To the loner, loneliness is a treasure that cannot be traded, even for the nicest of companies.
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as a 6" x 4" @ 300 ppi JPEG.


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Printable Vintage Art: Brussels in the Rain by Gustave Den Duyts

Brussels in the Rain, late 19th century
by Gustave Den Duyts (1850–1897)

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
― Langston Hughes

You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

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


Digitally enhanced reproductions of public domain paintings are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.