tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17115187658275462862024-03-18T20:07:37.241-04:00Field & GardenVintage garden and outdoor graphics + nature poemsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger163125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1711518765827546286.post-77885101171990852252024-03-18T20:07:00.000-04:002024-03-18T20:07:02.543-04:00Free Vintage Garden-Themed Greeting Card: Like Flowers Bright on Easter Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXxxT73vFWxbrBOVzIXfIrQovFqpdDtNMjESsVKcQoMfGpUWysOomhP1T4sRWUZoPIJjelR99tZ1k4RKNlCMmBcxmokcWiJdX9oaFyizLraUBjR-t3dqBqSuZ7o58nnDnRC5BlwYm2jvozRVcR6pGwLkIXzLbiBdrNtX543lrWvFX3uWlFSszjva6MCIQ/s3000/Flowers%20Bright%20on%20Easter%20Day%20Card%20preview.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="3000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXxxT73vFWxbrBOVzIXfIrQovFqpdDtNMjESsVKcQoMfGpUWysOomhP1T4sRWUZoPIJjelR99tZ1k4RKNlCMmBcxmokcWiJdX9oaFyizLraUBjR-t3dqBqSuZ7o58nnDnRC5BlwYm2jvozRVcR6pGwLkIXzLbiBdrNtX543lrWvFX3uWlFSszjva6MCIQ/s600/Flowers%20Bright%20on%20Easter%20Day%20Card%20preview.jpg"/></a></div>
<center><b>BEST EASTER WISHES</b><br>
May happiness adorn your way<br>
Like flowers bright on Easter Day<br></center>
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A vintage greeting postcard from 1930 showing a little girl holding a basket of flowers running through a garden path lined with tulips, clasping the paw of the Easter bunny. Can be used as a postcard or gift tag but also lovely for spring-inspired journaling, scrapbooking or graphic design projects with a vintage feel. You can download the high-res 6" x 4" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/pn6unspdi3kni7d/Flowers+Bright+on+Easter+Day+Card.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br />
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I've also included the back of the original vintage postcard in case you want to use it as a background for a creative project. You can download the high-res 6" x 4" @ 300 ppi JPEG <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/1utesser0dxdwyi/Flowers+Bright+on+Easter+Day+Card+(Back).jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br/>
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From my personal collection of ephemera. All digital scans by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="FieldandGarden.com" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">FieldandGarden.com</a> are licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>. Please credit and link back to FieldandGarden.com as your source if you use or share this work.<strike></strike>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1711518765827546286.post-77168248530939609452024-03-14T14:16:00.001-04:002024-03-14T14:17:00.051-04:00Free Vintage Botanical Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Spring Bulbs 4 (The Narcissus Pt. 2)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicVjuEG09YK7QM2mTP-CrYFZSifpZ131jd7GPPPdcBH1e11glZEal6BHtuKlLeGFwYYtmy_C-bw_0QhTgB0rSfoPbV42Lv4L26-8yjtuRi7NhR8xTH2gayFowwmiwzD911UXe_z65SHMBgBOLtORrJbiYnmSHYR7SrfEhxQUkrunMPtogLtNvY_ZWKhJk/s4200/Spring%20Bulbs%204%20preview.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="4200" data-original-width="3000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicVjuEG09YK7QM2mTP-CrYFZSifpZ131jd7GPPPdcBH1e11glZEal6BHtuKlLeGFwYYtmy_C-bw_0QhTgB0rSfoPbV42Lv4L26-8yjtuRi7NhR8xTH2gayFowwmiwzD911UXe_z65SHMBgBOLtORrJbiYnmSHYR7SrfEhxQUkrunMPtogLtNvY_ZWKhJk/s600/Spring%20Bulbs%204%20preview.jpg"/></a></div>
<center>Would you like some warm Spring pie?<br/>
Then, take a cup of clear blue sky.<br/>
Stir in buzzes from a bee,<br/>
Add the laughter of a tree.<br/>
<br/>
A dash of sunlight should suffice<br/>
To give the dew a hint of spice.<br/>
Mix with berries, plump and sweet.<br/>
Top with fluffy clouds, and eat!<br/>
― <b>Paul Kortepeter</b>, <i>Holly Pond Hill: A Child's Book of Easter</i></center><br/>
The botanical illustration above shows a group of flowers from the <i>Amaryllidacea</i> family, consisting of (1) variety of Polyanthus Narcissus, (2) also variety of Polyanthus Narcissus, (3) Self-Coloured Rush Daffodil, (4) variety of Sweet-scented Narcissus or Great Jonquil, (5) the Poet's Narcissus, and (6) <i>Narcissus viridiflora</i>.<br/>
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From the book, here are the original descriptions:
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You can download the botanical illustration as a <b>free</b> high-res 5" x 7" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/y04vgd1r7b3n60w/Spring+Bulbs+4.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>. Great for collage art, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects.<br />
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<center>Is it so small a thing<br/>
To have enjoy'd the sun,<br/>
To have liv'd light in the spring,<br/>
To have lov'd, to have thought, to have done;<br/>
To have advanc'd true friends, and beat down baffling foes...?<br/>
― <b>Matthew Arnold</b>, <i>Empedocles On Etna And Other Poems</i></center><br/>
The botanical illustration above shows a group of flowers from the <i>Amaryllidacea</i> family, consisting of (1) the Great Spanish White Daffodil, hardy with showy flowers, (2) Mr. Sabine's Daffodil, a very distinct species, (3) the Conspicuous Narcissus, a native of the Pyrenees, (4) the Nonsuch Daffodil, or Butter and Eggs, (5) the White Mountain Daffodil, one of the most beautiful narcissi, (6) Three-anthered Rush Daffodil, a native of Portugal and the south of France, (7) the Jonquil, a garden favourite for its fragrance and profusion of flowers, and (8) <i>Narcissus gracilis</i>, so long a common fixture in British gardens its origin is lost.<br/>
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From the book, here are the original descriptions:
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You can download the botanical illustration as a <b>free</b> high-res 5" x 7" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/2lmld40zkt7nfta/Spring+Bulbs+3.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>. Great for collage art, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects.<br />
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From my personal collection of ephemera. All digital scans by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="FieldandGarden.com" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">FieldandGarden.com</a> are licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>. Please credit and link back to FieldandGarden.com as your source if you use or share this work.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1711518765827546286.post-26889604854425419722024-03-07T15:31:00.000-05:002024-03-07T15:31:14.157-05:00Free Vintage Botanical Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Spring Bulbs 2 (The Ismene and Others)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwi9-CtpX4-AYadXsmc_rPfLn19e2NSA3MfVpbhyJJD_ZPgL6nTKKRetF2rejRg9ju8XX_028cTyKVqLRXJAJff85Yn7jAXEPxoz3kV-kXlsGUlmdsWlRQuBTJUaphTHip4OOfKCkgWCTW1sah8Ek4CMrsODuq3YxsGH_KLImkeDq9pxev5iT7PitkXSM/s4200/Spring%20Bulbs%202%20preview.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="4200" data-original-width="3000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwi9-CtpX4-AYadXsmc_rPfLn19e2NSA3MfVpbhyJJD_ZPgL6nTKKRetF2rejRg9ju8XX_028cTyKVqLRXJAJff85Yn7jAXEPxoz3kV-kXlsGUlmdsWlRQuBTJUaphTHip4OOfKCkgWCTW1sah8Ek4CMrsODuq3YxsGH_KLImkeDq9pxev5iT7PitkXSM/s600/Spring%20Bulbs%202%20preview.jpg"/></a></div>
<center>sweet spring is your<br/>
time is my time is our<br/>
time for springtime is lovetime<br/>
and viva sweet love<br/>
<br/>
(all the merry little birds are<br/>
flying in the floating in the<br/>
very spirits singing in<br/>
are winging in the blossoming)<br/>
<br/>
lovers go and lovers come<br/>
awandering awondering<br/>
but any two are perfectly<br/>
alone there's nobody else alive<br/>
<br/>
(such a sky and such a sun<br/>
i never knew and neither did you<br/>
and everybody never breathed<br/>
quite so many kinds of yes)<br/>
<br/>
not a tree can count his leaves<br/>
each herself by opening<br/>
but shining who by thousands mean<br/>
only one amazing thing<br/>
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(secretly adoring shyly<br/>
tiny winging darting floating<br/>
merry in the blossoming<br/>
always joyful selves are singing)<br/>
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sweet spring is your<br/>
time is my time is our<br/>
time for springtime is lovetime<br/>
and viva sweet love<br/>
― <b>e. e. cummings</b>, <i>Collected Poems</i></center><br/>
The botanical illustration above shows a trio of flowers from the <i>Amaryllidacea</i> family, consisting of (1) Peruvian Amancaes, a daffodil-like flower first brought to England in 1804; (2) the Common Sea Daffodil, a mainstay in British gardens for centuries; and (3) <i>Hymenocallis</i>, a name signifying "beautiful membrane," an aquatic plant from Mexico.<br/>
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From the book, here are the original descriptions:
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You can download the botanical illustration as a <b>free</b> high-res 5" x 7" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/czzyrl043w0egfz/Spring+Bulbs+2.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>. Great for collage art, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects.<br />
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<center><b>In Our Woods, Sometimes a Rare Music</b><br/>
Every spring<br/>
I hear the thrush singing<br/>
in the glowing woods<br/>
he is only passing through.<br/>
His voice is deep,<br/>
then he lifts it until it seems<br/>
to fall from the sky.<br/>
I am thrilled.<br/>
I am grateful.<br/>
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Then, by the end of morning,<br/>
he's gone, nothing but silence<br/>
out of the tree<br/>
where he rested for a night.<br/>
And this I find acceptable.<br/>
Not enough is a poor life.<br/>
But too much is, well, too much.<br/>
Imagine Verdi or Mahler<br/>
every day, all day.<br/>
It would exhaust anyone.<br/>
― <b>Mary Oliver</b>, <i>A Thousand Mornings: Poems</i><br/></center>
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The botanical illustration above shows a cluster of flowers from the <i>Amaryllidacea</i> family, consisting of (1) the Spring Snowflake or St. Agnes'-flower; (2) the Snowflake or Summer Snowflake, whose botanical name is derived from two Greek words signifying "a white violet"; (3) Narrow-leaved Snowflake or Autumn-flowering Snowflake; (4) the Rose-coloured Acis; (5) Cape Crocus: its botanical name is said to derive from the Greek word meaning "to rejoice."<br/>
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From the book, here are the original descriptions:
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You can download the botanical illustration as a <b>free</b> high-res 5" x 7" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/0xy59hanzfibi2j/Spring+Bulbs+1.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>. Great for collage art, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects.<br />
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<center><b>A HAPPY THOUGHT</b><br/>
Happiness and friends most true<br/>
Surely they are your just due<br/>
May I wish for you today<br/>
A gladness that will come and stay<br/></center>
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A vintage greeting card from the early 20th century (c1920). The decorative border at the top of the card shows a house surrounded by a lovely garden. Can be used as a postcard or gift tag but also lovely for spring-inspired journaling, scrapbooking or graphic design projects with a vintage feel. You can download the high-res 6" x 4" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/zrhf2e1das9m3db/A+Happy+Thought+Greeting+Postcard.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br />
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<center>Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving,<br/>
we get stronger and more resilient.<br/>
― <b>Steve Maraboli</b>, <i>Life, the Truth, and Being Free</i><br/>
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Resilience is accepting your new reality,<br/>
even if it's less good than the one you had before.<br/>
You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost,<br/>
or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.<br/>
― <b>Elizabeth Edwards</b></center><br/>
The above public domain painting is titled <i>"Las glicinas"</i> and it was painted in 1923 by <b>Pedro Blanes Viale</b> (1879–1926). Wisteria flowers have at times symbolized rejection and lost love but it is also a longstanding symbol of resilience due to the plant's hardiness and longevity.<br/>
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You can find the image of the original painting on Wikimedia <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pedro_Blanes_Viale_-_Las_glicinas.png" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a> and you can download my digitally enhanced version of the painting as a 13" x 14" @ 300 ppi JPEG <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/h0awanae39mdsq6/Wisteria.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>. I thought this might be a pretty addition to a garden journal or scrapbooking project but you can also simply print and frame for tabletop or wall art.<br/>
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<center>Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful<br/>
than all the banquets in the world ...<br/>
― <b>E.A. Bucchianeri</b>, <i>Brushstrokes of a Gadfly</i><br/>
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We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves,<br/>
or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.<br/>
― <b>Charles Schaefer</b></center><br />
Three antique illustrations of children in Edwardian costumes playing in the garden. You can download these vintage drawings as a <b>free</b> 9" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/kq1ugs6pxgtp152/Vintage+Kids+in+the+Garden+1.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br />
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<center>When we are children we seldom think of the future.<br/>
This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can.<br/>
The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.<br/>
― <b>Patrick Rothfuss</b>, <i>The Name of the Wind</i><br/>
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it,<br/>
if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring<br/>
that we used to gather with our tiny fingers<br/>
as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass,<br/>
the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows,<br/>
the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because<br/>
they did no harm to the precious crops.<br/>
What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything<br/>
is known and loved because it is known?<br/>
― <b>George Eliot</b>, <i>The Mill on the Floss</i>
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An antique illustration showing a Victorian lady walking beside her daughter who is riding on the back of a donkey down a country lane. You can download this vintage drawing as a <b>free</b> 8" x 10" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/wofoh6uzcp2bdgr/The+Donkey+Ride+1893.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br />
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<center><b>WEATHERS</b><br/>
This is the weather the cuckoo likes,<br/>
And so do I;<br/>
When showers betumble the chestnut spikes,<br/>
And nestlings fly;<br/>
And the little brown nightingale bills his best,<br/>
And they sit outside at 'The Traveller's Rest,'<br/>
And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest,<br/>
And citizens dream of the south and west,<br/>
And so do I.<br/>
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This is the weather the shepherd shuns,<br/>
And so do I;<br/>
When beeches drip in browns and duns,<br/>
And thresh and ply;<br/>
And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe,<br/>
And meadow rivulets overflow,<br/>
And drops on gate bars hang in a row,<br/>
And rooks in families homeward go,<br/>
And so do I.<br/>
― <b>Thomas Hardy</b><br/>
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A grouping of vintage line drawings from 1893 showing four Victorian women and a child dressed for walks in the country. You can download theese antique drawings as a <b>free</b> 8.5" x 11" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/9q5o5s6e1i3m60t/Women+and+Child+in+the+Country+1893.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br />
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Three grandest new plants for only 30 cents (as featured in the Mayflower Horticulture magazine from May 1896). From left to right, you have:<br/>
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THE BRIDAL ROSE: A remarkable plant with leaves resembling a Rose in shape; its flowers are produced during winter, and as as double as a Peony and almost as large. Color pure white, and when a plant one or two feet high shows a score or more of these enormous flowers, which they often do, the sight is a most novel and attractive one. New and little known. Will create a sensation anywhere, for it is one of the most remarkably showy plants in cultivation, and should be in every collection.<br/>
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NEW DWARF CALLA LITTLE GEM: All that need be said about this sterling novelty is that it is a perfect miniature Calla, growing 8 or 12 inches high and producing perpetually very large snow-white blossoms. It begins to bloom when only a few inches high in a three or four inch pot, and a well-established plant in a large pot is never without flowers, summer or winter, and sometimes shows a dozen at once. The greatest plant novelty of late years and yet the sensation of the day. Our stock is TRUE, and this is a rare opportunity for our readers to get one at little cost.<br/>
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RUDBECKIA LACINIATA GOLDEN GLOW: Offered this year for the first time. A hardy perennial plant growing eight feet high, branching freely, and bearing by the hundreds, on long, graceful stems, exquisite double blossoms of the brightest golden color and large as Cactus Dahlias. The cut represents a plant in bloom, as photographed. Mr. William Falconer, the best authority on plants in this country, says of it: "When I saw the double-flowering form of Rudbeckia Laciniate in bloom in your grounds at Floral Park, in summer last year, I was amazed, for notwithstanding my long and intimate acquaintance with plants I had never before seen a double-flowered Rudbeckia; and I was delighted with the fullness and gorgeousness of the blossoms and their clear, bright yellow color. You gave me a plant last spring and it was set out in good garden ground. It grew vigorously and threw up strong branching flower stems six feet high, laden with sheaves of golden blossoms as large as fair Chrysanthemums, and all having an elegant, graceful appearance, without any stiffness in habit or blossom. Many eminent florists and amateurs have seen it here, and all admired it. As cut flowers, the blossoms last well. In fine, I unhesitatingly regard it as the most desirable introduction among hardy perennials since we got Clematis Paniculate."<br/>
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You can download the vintage ad above as a high-res 8" x 8" @ 300 ppi JPEG <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/gc3184uxal89k7o/Three+Grandest+New+Plants.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.
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Here is another winter poem (also entitled "January"), written by poet, architect, genealogist, and mathematician <a href="https://poets.org/poet/frank-dempster-sherman" target="_blank"><u>Frank Dempster Sherman</u></a>. This short work originally appeared in the January 10, 1888 issue of Harper's Young People magazine.<br/>
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<i>JANUARY<b></b></i><br/>
by <b>FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN</b> (1860–1916)<br/>
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JANUARY, bleak and drear,<br/>
First arrival of the year,<br/>
Named for Janus ― Janus who<br/>
Fable says has faces two ―<br/>
Pray is that the reason why<br/>
Yours is such a fickle sky?<br/>
First you smile, and to us bring<br/>
Dreams of the returning spring;<br/>
Then, without a sign, you frown,<br/>
And the snow-flakes hurry down,<br/>
Making all the landscape white,<br/>
Just as if it blanched with fright.<br/>
You obey no word or law:<br/>
Now you freeze, and then you thaw,<br/>
Teasing all the brooks that run<br/>
With the hope of constant sun,<br/>
Chaining all their feet at last<br/>
Firm in icy fetters fast.<br/>
Month of all months most contrary,<br/>
Sweet and bitter January!<br/></center>
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I have paired the poem with a vintage wallpaper texture in the preview image above. If you would like to download the high-res 7" x 5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark, you can find it <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/4m8xrc3ezppeoai/January+by+Frank+Dempster+Sherman.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>. You can also find the black and white illustrated poem without the vintage paper texture <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/fjpn1im97kzdph2/January+by+Frank+Dempster+Sherman+BW.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br/>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1711518765827546286.post-69716515160775039292024-01-28T22:32:00.001-05:002024-01-28T22:32:56.126-05:00Vintage Art Appreciation: Portrait of O. F. Tomara by Valentin Serov<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUkmp0tboRc1lF8J43L91zPvggv9-ec_luEI6mwMo4gsB24nKr5CIDHApQHKMAvMo7ljWBKaNvQa0OI0yD8g3egStrkBXdoxmnrvT5VecLimIBhdRt6FWibPFaSn8zWrafp_FGgtgRm7Iox6DvlU-M7F8cAqeiti-f0Sy23VKnVYxQN1StbMv3eqeKQ2E/s2700/Portrait%20of%20O.%20F%20preview.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="1800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUkmp0tboRc1lF8J43L91zPvggv9-ec_luEI6mwMo4gsB24nKr5CIDHApQHKMAvMo7ljWBKaNvQa0OI0yD8g3egStrkBXdoxmnrvT5VecLimIBhdRt6FWibPFaSn8zWrafp_FGgtgRm7Iox6DvlU-M7F8cAqeiti-f0Sy23VKnVYxQN1StbMv3eqeKQ2E/s600/Portrait%20of%20O.%20F%20preview.jpg"/></a></div>
<center>I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.<br/>
― <b>Walt Whitman</b><br/>
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When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.<br/>
― <b>Deb Caletti</b>, <i>The Secret Life of Prince Charming</i><br/></center>
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The above public domain artwork is titled <i>"Portrait of O. F. Tomara"</i> and it was painted in 1892 by <b>Valentin Serov</b> (1865–1911). You can find the image of the original painting on Wikimedia <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olga_Fedorovna_Tamara_by_V.Serov_(1892).jpg" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a> and you can download my digitally enhanced version of the painting as a 6" x 9" @ 300 ppi JPEG <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/ybyiwpmklp6lvy9/Portrait+of+O.+F.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>. I thought this might be a pretty addition to a garden journal or scrapbooking project but you can also simply print and frame for tabletop or wall art.<br/>
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<center>There are two types of appointments in life!<br/>
Appointments you know and appointments you don't know!<br/>
It is this second type of appointment that makes life interesting and but also scary.<br/>
Sometimes life will arrange a meeting for you; sometimes good, sometimes bad<br/>
and sometimes even tragic meeting, but you don't know about it!<br/>
― <b>Mehmet Murat ildan</b></center><br />
Two antique illustrations from 1892 showing a Victorian lady in a public garden. In the first image on the left, the drawing shows a close-up of her with some tall hollyhocks or gladioli in the background. The second illustration on the right depicts her standing on the terrace, looking towards another couple who are strolling arm-in-arm in the garden.<br/>
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You can download the two illustrations as a single high-res 10" x 8" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage art, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbookingprojects <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/cpe726p3x7dwzsn/Victorian+Lady+in+the+Garden+3.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br />
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From my personal collection of ephemera. All digital scans by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="FieldandGarden.com" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">FieldandGarden.com</a> are licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>. Please credit and link back to FieldandGarden.com as your source if you use or share this work.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1711518765827546286.post-51124375498503048272024-01-11T07:09:00.004-05:002024-02-20T07:10:50.317-05:00Free Vintage Outdoor Illustrations for Collage, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Victorian Ladies in the Field, 1893<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYUsku0KHB3TorSf5W9XS-B7Pys6kq1NDIyEwohIYDjEqGyarHbhMt0hItXDYGArnjA0tv9-xbOgjkdLl0gdpqOgmMWY2wyb4ZG5EtqDanYhTmqTN7GRLi-aY3mqEZC5nQELtpKBKIuVApifm3cGWtzaMWFc5HE88SJVwKKF1O2-kLnJbdaKYbSMRk0CM/s2500/Young%20Ladies%20in%20the%20Field%201%20preview.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="2500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYUsku0KHB3TorSf5W9XS-B7Pys6kq1NDIyEwohIYDjEqGyarHbhMt0hItXDYGArnjA0tv9-xbOgjkdLl0gdpqOgmMWY2wyb4ZG5EtqDanYhTmqTN7GRLi-aY3mqEZC5nQELtpKBKIuVApifm3cGWtzaMWFc5HE88SJVwKKF1O2-kLnJbdaKYbSMRk0CM/s600/Young%20Ladies%20in%20the%20Field%201%20preview.jpg"/></a></div>
<center>No walk is lovelier than the walk you make inside a field!<br/>
― <b>Mehmet Murat ildan</b><br/>
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A field which feeds you, a river which gives you water<br/>
are much holier than all other so-called holy places!<br/>
― <b>Mehmet Murat ildan</b></center><br />
A pair of vintage line drawings from 1893 showing two Victorian ladies in the field. The illustration on the left shows a lady resting her elbows on a fence rail, a pair of field glasses in her right hand, perhaps to observe birds with? The illustration on the right shows a lady leaning back against a fence, a basket of wildflowers in her left hand.<br/>
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You can download theese antique drawings as a <b>free</b> 8" x 8" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/kqifguu9t5ecra5/Young+Ladies+in+the+Field+1.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br />
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From my personal collection of ephemera. All digital scans by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="FieldandGarden.com" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">FieldandGarden.com</a> are licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>. Please credit and link back to FieldandGarden.com as your source if you use or share this work.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1711518765827546286.post-90867679186702041212024-01-09T15:32:00.001-05:002024-01-09T15:32:32.557-05:00Free Vintage Outdoor Illustration for Collage, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Ice Skating Party in the Park, 1896<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR6u0UwPXYCAtqn4TJVzw3VRqmh49gy1Aqs7rgx0EsqVY5nnjf8CT_ld2drVhaLbq8aNESMCvU40tX7LoNb7YaS6qmpJdNvuptFpHR16YvTUTrPTOfp3L8K5RiErsb3I4biPQbSOSLr3N9q2ZrKosYg_RMSsU4k8NCBXGnD1-7q5olvejY6HHiSlbMgHQ/s3333/Ice%20Skating%20Party%201896%20preview.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="3333" data-original-width="2500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR6u0UwPXYCAtqn4TJVzw3VRqmh49gy1Aqs7rgx0EsqVY5nnjf8CT_ld2drVhaLbq8aNESMCvU40tX7LoNb7YaS6qmpJdNvuptFpHR16YvTUTrPTOfp3L8K5RiErsb3I4biPQbSOSLr3N9q2ZrKosYg_RMSsU4k8NCBXGnD1-7q5olvejY6HHiSlbMgHQ/s600/Ice%20Skating%20Party%201896%20preview.jpg"/></a></div>
<center>A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air,<br/>
and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth,<br/>
now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.<br/>
― <b>Nathaniel Hawthorne</b></center><br />
A vintage outdoor illustration from 1896 showing a young Victorian lady in a warm winter outfit, her hands in a muff, skating dreamily on an iced-over pond in a park. She seems undisturbed by the merrymaking crowd all around her, as she waltzes lightly across the ice on her skates.<br/>
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You can download theis antique drawing as a <b>free</b> 6" x 8" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/10d1z6vdut6qkaw/Ice+Skating+Party+1896.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br />
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From my personal collection of ephemera. All digital scans by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="FieldandGarden.com" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">FieldandGarden.com</a> are licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>. Please credit and link back to FieldandGarden.com as your source if you use or share this work.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1711518765827546286.post-3882716793971002342024-01-08T08:17:00.001-05:002024-01-08T08:17:41.694-05:00Free Vintage Nature Poem: January by Mary Rowles Jarvis (Part 2)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9W2MyCSbQZIgC7SNsplY32DfouIXjvSug-5h_q-cmTHn7i-n1iG320HAue33WqcVkY3jIY4snfvQvsjUyHezAu0Yc35kvgSlJAm2wutFWEA3VMnXZbMkIBqTH7N_fWoRLRIfQN7oWPgKWoHaDTXmj4-lqlMos1mDBH79y4ukokAR9ApBp62jJfUdIvKk/s1800/Januaey%20cover%20page%20%28part%202%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9W2MyCSbQZIgC7SNsplY32DfouIXjvSug-5h_q-cmTHn7i-n1iG320HAue33WqcVkY3jIY4snfvQvsjUyHezAu0Yc35kvgSlJAm2wutFWEA3VMnXZbMkIBqTH7N_fWoRLRIfQN7oWPgKWoHaDTXmj4-lqlMos1mDBH79y4ukokAR9ApBp62jJfUdIvKk/s600/Januaey%20cover%20page%20%28part%202%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Here is a winter poem, originally published in 1896, that depicts the month of January as a fierce warrior king whose strength is tempered with a kind heart.<br/>
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<i>"JANUARY"</i><br/>
by <b>Mary Rowles Jarvis</b><br/>
(Part 2)<br/>
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His rod of iron, outstretched upon the land,<br/>
Arrests the stir and music of the rills;<br/>
Again the rushing rains of his right hand<br/>
Lay bare the lasting hills.<br/>
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Yet fear we not this warrior, fierce and bold,<br/>
The year has turned, the light shall lengthen soon;<br/>
The onslaught of his keen, relentless cold<br/>
Shall make straight paths for June.<br/>
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His ways are stern, his meanings are benign;<br/>
Behold, unharmed, the snowdrop on his crest,<br/>
While the gold splendour of the celandine<br/>
Shines starlike on his breast!<br/>
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You can find PART 1 <a href="https://www.fieldandgarden.com/2024/01/free-vintage-nature-poem-january-by.html" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br/>
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The painting above is called <i>"Winter Landscape"</i> by <b>Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé</b> (1874 – 1939). You can find the image of the original painting on Wikimedia <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%A8%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%86%D0%B5_-_%D0%97%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B6.jpg" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a> and my digitally enhanced version of the painting <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/aceoqga369xrq4k/Winter+Landscape.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br/>
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If you would like to download the poem as it originally appeared in The Girl's Own Paper (as seen above) with its accompanying black and white illustration, you can find the high-res 9" x 8" @ 300 ppi JPEG <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/n0ue2ya5p5m1hwj/January+by+Mary+Rolews+Jarvis.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br/>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1711518765827546286.post-35373945814485332202024-01-08T08:13:00.004-05:002024-01-08T08:18:24.093-05:00Free Vintage Nature Poem: January by Mary Rowles Jarvis (Part 1)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlDWS_D7VNd0vFJ5PJrXzL87aVeuR27nqcSPbsds1xyTYlagPeoJMBpewLfym5Mq6RoxH-nBIuC9-OFpoIkLW9-LN_XKSzaDGRSr6JfIyVnByL8Dbhp3R8Jd4g6bqsFqykkwoxRwX72618ZiWf_9fc5jry-yhR1Sc8_XkafeEGvnbHz6E6LW5usEQxP4/s1800/Januaey%20cover%20page%20%28part%201%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlDWS_D7VNd0vFJ5PJrXzL87aVeuR27nqcSPbsds1xyTYlagPeoJMBpewLfym5Mq6RoxH-nBIuC9-OFpoIkLW9-LN_XKSzaDGRSr6JfIyVnByL8Dbhp3R8Jd4g6bqsFqykkwoxRwX72618ZiWf_9fc5jry-yhR1Sc8_XkafeEGvnbHz6E6LW5usEQxP4/s600/Januaey%20cover%20page%20%28part%201%29.jpg"/></a></div>
Here is a winter poem, originally published in 1896, that depicts the month of January as a stern warrior king, bringing snow and ice in his wake as he rides through the fields.<br/>
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<i>"JANUARY"</i><br/>
by <b>Mary Rowles Jarvis</b><br/>
(Part 1)<br/>
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Victorious on the utmost crags of time,<br/>
From the dread conflict of the midnight sea,<br/>
The first-born month draws near with song and chime,<br/>
A monarch great and free!<br/>
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In the red storm-light of the wintry dawn<br/>
We see him stand, austere and tempest-crowned,<br/>
With sword and spear on many an ice-field drawn<br/>
To work his will profound.<br/>
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His chariot is the north wind that hath crossed,<br/>
By leagues of drift and berg, the Polar main;<br/>
His sandals are the ploughshares of the frost<br/>
That rend the clods in twain.<br/>
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Continue to PART 2 <a href="https://www.fieldandgarden.com/2024/01/free-vintage-nature-poem-january-by_8.html" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br/>
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The painting above is called <i>"Winter Morning in Engadine"</i> by <b>Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé</b> (1874 – 1939). You can find the image of the original painting on Wikimedia <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%A8%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%86%D0%B5_-_%D0%97%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B5_%D1%83%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE_%D0%B2_%D0%AD%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0.jpg" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a> and my digitally enhanced version of the painting <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/2ydid48szzhf7dj/Winter+Morning.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br/>
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<center>To love at all is to be vulnerable.<br/>
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.<br/>
If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.<br/>
Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements.<br/>
Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.<br/>
But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change.<br/>
It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.<br/>
To love is to be vulnerable.<br/>
― <b>C.S. Lewis</b>, <i>The Four Loves</i><br/></center>
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An antique botanical illustration showing a butterfly on a stalk of pink cabbage roses (Provence rose, <i>Rosa x centiflora</i>). The engraving was done by Langlois after a drawing by Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759 - 1840).<br/>
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The form of <i>Rosa centiflora</i> portrayed by Redouté in this print is a triumph of the hybridiser's art; of its kind, it is surely near perfection. It is not surprising that <i>Centiflora</i> roses came to be identified with the so-called Queen of Roses cultivated by the Greeks and Romans. This notion is romantic, but informed opinion now belives it to be mistaken. <i>Rosa centiflora</i> is thought to be a complex hybrid of four species known in western Europe in the late sixteenth century, which was evolved pver a period of about a hundred and thirty years and perfected in the early eighteenth century. The four species involved were <i>Rosa rubra</i> (the Apothecary's Rose or Rose of Provins), <i>Rosa phoenicea</i> (the Damask Rose or Crusaders' Rose), <i>Rosa moschata</i> (the Musk Rose) and <i>Rosa canina</i> (the Dog Rose).<br/>
[Source: Eve and Norman Robson, <i>Plants</i> (London: Studio Editions, 1990), p.84]
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Download and print for wall art or to use in various altered art, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects. You can find the <b>free</b> high-res 8" x 11" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/fk41aa252ev6lt3/Butterfly+and+Rose+Illustration+1.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br />
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Below, you can see how I have paired the above botanical illustration with a vintage piece of French sheet music called "Le Papillon et La Rose." You can find the high-res JPEG of the sheet music <a href="https://www.fieldandgarden.com/2024/01/free-victorian-sheet-music-for-collage.html" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br/>
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If you would like to download the combined illustration and sheet music image, you can find the high-res JPEG <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/7y2j7rkid4ku2ky/Le+Papillon+et+La+Rose+Sheet+Music+1893+(Illustrated).jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.
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A 19th century French musical composition called "Le Papillon et La Rose" that was originally published in an 1893 issue of La Famille. Download and print for wall art or to use in various altered art, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects. You can find the <b>free</b> high-res 8" x 11" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/1qn83whbksu4cgk/Le+Papillon+et+La+Rose+Sheet+Music+1893.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br/>
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Below, you can see how I have paired the above sheet music with an antique <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Redout%C3%A9" target="_blank"><u>Redouté</u></a> illustration that shows a butterfly resting on the leaf of a stalk of roses. You can find the high-res JPEG of that nature illustration <a href="https://www.fieldandgarden.com/2024/01/free-vintage-flower-illustration-for_4.html" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br/>
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If you would like to download the combined illustration and sheet music image, you can find the high-res JPEG <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/7y2j7rkid4ku2ky/Le+Papillon+et+La+Rose+Sheet+Music+1893+(Illustrated).jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.
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<center>The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering,<br/>
known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.<br/>
These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life<br/>
that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.<br/>
Beautiful people do not just happen.<br/>
― <b>Elisabeth Kübler-Ross</b><br/>
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.<br/>
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.<br/>
― <b>Franz Kafka</b><br/></center>
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An antique botanical illustration (from c1860) of Fortune's Double Yellow roses. Download and print for wall art or to use in various altered art, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects. You can find the <b>free</b> high-res 8.5" x 11" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/ua7jhxvjswdxp57/Yellow+Roses+1.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br />
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<center><i>Elena Among Roses</i>, 1907<br />
by <b>Joaquín Sorolla</b> (1863–1923)<br />
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Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you,<br/>
it's not because they enjoy solitude.<br/>
It's because they have tried to blend into the world before,<br/>
and people continue to disappoint them.<br/>
― <b>Jodi Picoult</b>, <i>My Sister's Keeper</i><br/>
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I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am,<br/>
the more I will respect myself.<br/>
― <b>Charlotte Brontë</b>, <i>Jane Eyre</i><br/>
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I had already found that it was not good to be alone,<br/>
and so made companionship with what there was around me,<br/>
sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self;<br/>
but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.<br/>
― <b>Joshua Slocum</b>, <i>Sailing Alone around the World</i></center>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1711518765827546286.post-13807999687757987612024-01-01T21:52:00.000-05:002024-01-01T21:52:52.295-05:00Free Vintage Garden Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Victorian Ladies in the Garden (Set 1)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisqSD93U_a7yId7GA-XlxRQ-REHPVVwsdbNRxtvWj4Al-9K77ubpze9hRe_SXOilVkYAYBfXEZVblHW2B6KuZgJ_J2fdsfDLlpwLK4LsvGdbwvxzc1Oht1VCzheB1D2AyY7kmypozfYAzFkdFDouV2shzH87HDWacsPu-hfavtEAhPlT8P0O43xjF1SYY/s3750/Victorian%20Lady%20in%20the%20Garden%201%20preview.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="3750" data-original-width="2500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisqSD93U_a7yId7GA-XlxRQ-REHPVVwsdbNRxtvWj4Al-9K77ubpze9hRe_SXOilVkYAYBfXEZVblHW2B6KuZgJ_J2fdsfDLlpwLK4LsvGdbwvxzc1Oht1VCzheB1D2AyY7kmypozfYAzFkdFDouV2shzH87HDWacsPu-hfavtEAhPlT8P0O43xjF1SYY/s600/Victorian%20Lady%20in%20the%20Garden%201%20preview.jpg"/></a></div>
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<center>Be healthy by being outdoors in the natural daylight with nature!<br/>
― <b>Steven Magee</b>, <i>Light Forensics</i></center><br />
Two antique illustrations from 1886 showing a pair of Victorian ladies walking around the garden. You can download these <b>free</b> high-res 6" x 9" @ 300 ppi JPEGs without a watermark for collage art, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbookingprojects <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/88rrcx1i6ny2fvd/Victorian+Lady+in+the+Garden+1.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a> and <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/n6q6zuekhi9q1x9/Victorian+Lady+in+the+Garden+2.jpg/file" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.<br />
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<center>These are the magic moments that you will remember on your deathbed.<br/>
The things that made life worth living. Your first love, the birth of your child,<br/>
achieving that lifelong dream, sharing great food and sights with friends and loved ones.<br/>
— <b>Richard Heart</b><br/>
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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people<br/>
when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers,<br/>
and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit,<br/>
and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.<br/>
― <b>Black Elk</b></center><br/>
Throwback photo of a bare willow tree in morning light at Stone Street Park in Oshawa. Stone Street Park is a large park along the Oshawa segment of the 1400-km <a href="https://waterfronttrail.org/" target="_blank"><u>Great Lakes Waterfront Trail</u></a>. The Oshawa portion of the Waterfront Trail runs along Lake Ontario for 15.5 km from the <a href="https://oshawaexpress.ca/oshawas-own-wildlife-reserve/" target="_blank"><u>McLaughlin Bay Wildlife Reserve</u></a> to <a href="https://images.ourontario.ca/whitby/479/exhibit/5" target="_blank"><u>Whitby Harbour</u></a>. The ever-changing views along the water at Stone Street Park make it one of our favourite destinations to walk the dog.<br/>
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<center>Over hill, over dale,<br/>
Thorough bush, thorough brier,<br/>
Over park, over pale,<br/>
Thorough flood, thorough fire,<br/>
I do wander everywhere,<br/>
Swifter than the moonè’s sphere;<br/>
And I serve the fairy queen,<br/>
To dew her orbs upon the green:<br/>
The cowslips tall her pensioners be;<br/>
In their gold coats spots you see;<br/>
Those be rubies, fairy favours,<br/>
In those freckles live their savours:<br/>
I must go seek some dew-drops here,<br/>
And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear.<br/>
― <b>William Shakespeare</b>, <i>Fairy Land I</i></center><br />
A vintage outdoor illustration from 1872 showing two little girls gathering cowslips <i>(Primula veris)</i> in the forest.
In Shakespeare's time, cowslips were often associated with fairies and magic. These “faerie cups” were believed to have the ability to lead unsuspecting wanderers down paths of adventure, mischief, and hidden treasure.<br/>
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<center>Photo credit: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Primula_veris20170513_7568.jpg" target="_blank"><u>Wikipedia</u></a></center>
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<center>Photo credit: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Primula_veris_sl3.jpg" target="_blank"><u>Wikipedia</u></a></center>
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In 19th century England, the yellow blooms of the common cowslip was widely held to signify “winning grace” and “comeliness.” In the Victorian language of flowers, the cowslip symbolized youth, rusticity, pensiveness, and healing.<br/>
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