Free Vintage Garden Illustration: Happiness in the Garden, 1896

Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

We all deserve to get away and have some peace; and others deserve the peace of us getting out of their way!
― Ajahn Brahm, Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?: Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life's Difficulties

Vintage illustration of a lady relaxing in the garden from 1896. 8” x 11” @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Printable Vintage Illustration: Conversations in the Garden 8

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
― Guy de Maupassant

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.
― Diana Vreeland, D.V.

Vintage illustration of two ladies having a conversation in the garden from 1857. 4.25 x 5.5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Vintage Garden Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: The Gardener, 1889

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies,” my grandfather said.
A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made.
Or a garden planted.
Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die,
and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

“It doesn't matter what you do,” he said, “so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.”
The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener
is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all;
the gardener will be there a lifetime.
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Vintage illustration of a young female gardener from 1889. 4.5” x 6” @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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Whimsical Fairytale Illustration for Altered Art, Junk Journaling, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: A Rainy Day

A Rainy Day (drawn by F.S. Church)
5" x 10.5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Vintage Outdoor Graphic for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: In a Wildflower Patch 1

Young Lady in a Patch of Wildflowers and Blackberries
8.5" x 11" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Vintage Outdoor Graphic for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Lady Feeding Birds in the Field

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside,
somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be
and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will,
I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow,
whatever the circumstances may be.
And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

Somewhat grungy, vintage illustration of a lady feeding a small flock of birds in the field. You can download this outdoor-themed illustration as an 8" x 10" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for altered art, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects here.


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Vintage Garden Graphic for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Young Woman in Sunflower Field 1

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
These are but trifles, to be sure;
but scattered along life's pathway,
the good they do is inconceivable.
― Joseph Addison

Vintage illustration of a young Victorian woman admiring a tall clump of sunflowers in an overgrown garden. You can download this garden-themed illustration as an 8" x 10" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for altered art, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects here.


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Free Vintage Outdoor Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Into the Woods

Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend,
for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable.

I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds
or hugging the old black oak tree.
I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours.

Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible.
I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds,
until the foxes run by unconcerned.
I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.

If you have ever gone to the woods with me,
I must love you very much.
— Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
Vintage outdoor illustration of a Victorian standing in the deep woods, cradling a bouquet of wildflowers in her arms.

You can download theis vintage illustration as a free 8" x 11" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects here.


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Free Garden Clipart for Collage, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Edwardian Mother and Daughter in the Garden 1

If you are losing your leisure, look out!
-- It may be you are losing your soul.
― Virginia Woolf

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
Discard them and their value will never be known.
Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vintage 20th century illustration of an Edwardian mother and her daughter in the garden. The mother is lounging against a garden hammock as her daughter leans in beside her her, holding a racket.

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Free Garden Clipart for Collage, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Big Sister Sheltering Her Little Brother from Rain

The rain set early in tonight,
The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore the elm-tops down for spite,
And did its best to vex the lake:
I listened with heart fit to break.
When glided in Porphyria; straight
She shut the cold out and the storm,
And kneeled and made the cheerless grate
Blaze up and all the cottage warm...
― Robert Browning
Two panel illustration from 1866 showing a young girl (big sister) sheltering a young boy (little brother) from gusty winds and blowing rain with an old but apparently sturdy umbrella.

You can download this garden-themed illustration as a free 11" x 6.75" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects here.


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Free Vintage Outdoor Clipart for Collage, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Edwardian Lady at the End of an Autumn Trail, 1904

I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky,
joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming,
defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
― Edward Abbey, Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
A vintage outdoor illustration from 1904 showing a young Edwardian lady standing with a chair at the bottom of a winding trail. Her image is framed on the left hand side by a border of stylized autumn leaves forming an arch above her head.

You can download theis antique drawing as a free 5" x 8.5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects here.


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