Free Vintage Garden Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: In the Conservatory, 1872

Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable,
and you are worth the effort.
― Deborah Day
An antique illustration from 1872 showing two ladies in the conservatory, tending to their large collection of plants.

You can download this free high-res 6" x 5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage art, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbookingprojects here.


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Free Vintage Garden Clipart for Collage, Papercrafts, Scrapbooking or Wall Art: Conversations in the Garden 4

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice;
had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
― Edna St. Vincent Millay
An antique illustration from 1872 showing a scene from the garden. Two ladies are having an earnest conversation under a vine-covered arbor. The young woman on the right seems to be thinking deeply about the information imparted to her by the lady who is seated on the left.

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Free Vintage Flower Illustrations for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Fall Chrysanthemums (Set 1)

"You're beautiful and sad," I said finally, not looking at him when I did.
"Just like your eyes. You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid
but forgot I knew until I heard it again."
For a long moment there was only the whirring sound of the tires on the road,
and then Sam said softly, "Thank you."
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
A pair of black and white vintage flower illustrations from 1897. The drawing on the left is of a bouquet of pompone chrysanthemums and the drawing on the right shows a type of anemone-flowered pompone chrysanthemums. Chrysanthemums, often affectionately called mums for short, are a popular autumn flower in North America and you can see an abundance of these blooms for sale in many stores come September. They are grown in a variety of bright and cheerful colours and are a welcome sight when the weather turns cold and dreary.

You can download these botanical clipart as a free 8" x 10" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects here.


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Free Vintage Garden Clipart for Collage, Papercrafts, Scrapbooking or Wall Art: Conversations in the Garden 3

It was they who taught me that a conversation even between strangers
could be a gift and a sport of sorts, a chance for warmth, banter, blessings, humor,
that spoken words could be a little fire at which you warmed yourself.
― Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoirn
An antique illustration from 1867 showing a scene from the garden. A lady with her daughter has come to visit a friend or relative in her garden. They seem to have interrupted the lady of the house in the middle of arranging a bouquet of flowers (peach-coloured roses or poppies, perhaps) in a vase.

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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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Whimsical Fairytale Illustration for Collage, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Dahlia Flower Fairy Representing Loveliness, 1867

Thy beauty is as undenied
As the beauty of a star;
And thy heart beats just as equally,
Whate'er thy praises are;
And so long without a parallel
Thy loveliness hath shone,
That, follow'd like the tided moon,
Thou mov'st as calmly on.
― Nathaniel Parker Willis
A fairy tale illustration showing a flower fairy meant to represent the vivacious and exuberant dahlia. The fairy is pictured kicking her heels as she lightheartedly dances with a garland of dahlias that twists and twines around her in a floral S-shape.

Accompanying the illustration is the second stanza of a porm from Nathaniel Parker Willis entitled "To a Belle." You can read this bright and lovely poem in full here. This vintage drawing is originally from a pair of 1867 Victorian advertising cards. You can find the companion card with the modest violet here.

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Whimsical Fairytale Illustration for Collage, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Violet Flower Fairy Representing Modesty, 1867

Sweet flower, that hides in the shade,
Meet emblem of the modest maid,
Whose virtues, like thy perfumes rare,
Makes home delightful everywhere.
― Sir Walter Scott
A fairy tale illustration showing a flower fairy meant to represent the shy and retiring violet. The fairy is pictured clutching the stems of two clusters of violets growing upwardly in an U-shaped arch. Accompanying the illustration is a short porm from Sir Walter Scott. From a pair of 1867 Victorian advertising cards. You can find the companion card with the lovely dahlia here.

To download the free high-res 5" x 8" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark, please click here. Can be used in collage, papercrafts, and scrapbooking projects or simply print and frame for wall art.


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Free Vintage Clipart for Collage, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Portrait of a Victorian Lady with Scarlet Geraniums, 1893

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this,
in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
A black and white illustration from 1893. This image shows a portrait of a Victorian lady enclosed in a round frame surrounded by scarlet geraniums.

Despite popular belief, red geraniums are not real geraniums. The red-flowered species is actually a pelargonium. The most common red cultivar is Pelargonium x hortorum. It is thought that Wiccans may believe how red geraniums planted near doorways can ward against illness entering the house. In the language of flowers, red geraniums represent feelings of love, passion, and romantic attachment.

You can download this antique engraving as a free 5" x 7" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here. You are welcome to use it for collage, papercrafts, scrapbooking or other graphic design projects.


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Free Vintage Outdoor Clipart for Collage, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Two Ladies Outdoors (Set 3)

I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers
and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow.
― Wendy Delsol, Stork
A pair of vintage graphics from 1904 showing Edwardian ladies in outdoor settings. The one on the left is walking through the grounds of a grand estate; the one on the left is leaning casually against a stone wall with views of lofty hills and lush countryside behind her.

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Free Vintage Outdoor Clipart for Collage, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Two Ladies Outdoors (Set 2)

She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one
― the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul.
She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries.
In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years,
at peace in the contemplation of herself.
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned
A couple of vintage illustrations from 1892 showing Victorian ladies in outdoor settings. The one on the left is veiled and standing in front of a garden bench; the one on the right is leaning against a solidly built fence.

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Free Vintage Outdoor Clipart for Collage, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Two Ladies Outdoors (Set 1)

A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong,
you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next.
This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.
― A.L. Kennedy, Day
Two vintage illustrations from 1892 showing two Victorian ladies dressed for the outdoors with umbrellas in their hands.

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Free Vintage Garden Clipart for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Conversations in the Garden 1 & 2

In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt.
It felt like we were in some place your body can't visit,
some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments.
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
Two vintage illustrations from 1891 showing scenes from the garden.The first illustration shows three Victorian ladies chatting in the garden. Two of the ladies are sitting on garden benches while the third lady (who is wearing a veiled hat) has her hand on the shoulder of the seated lady on the left. In the background is some shrubbery and a sundial.

The second illustration shows two ladies sitting on a garden bench while a third lady stands behind them. The seated lady at the back of the bench is holding an umbrella, the lady seated in front is gazing straight ahead with a posy of flowers on her lap. The caped lady holding a purse in her hands is deep in conversation with the seated lady holding the umbrella.

You can download these free high-res 8" x 8" @ 300 ppi JPEGs without a watermark for altered art, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects here and here.


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Free Printable Flower Illustrations for Altered Art, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Victorian Baskets of Snowdrops and Forget-Me-Nots

sweet spring is your
time is my time is our
time for springtime is lovetime
and viva sweet love

(all the merry little birds are
flying in the floating in the
very spirits singing in
are winging in the blossoming)

lovers go and lovers come
awandering awondering
but any two are perfectly
alone there's nobody else alive

(such a sky and such a sun
i never knew and neither did you
and everybody never breathed
quite so many kinds of yes)

not a tree can count his leaves
each herself by opening
but shining who by thousands mean
only one amazing thing

(secretly adoring shyly
tiny winging darting floating
merry in the blossoming
always joyful selves are singing)

sweet spring is your
time is my time is our
time for springtime is lovetime
and viva sweet love
― e. e. cummings

A pair of Victorian trade cards from circa 1890 with illustrations of spring flowers. The first shows a basket of winter-white snowdrops while the second image contains a basket of riotously blue forget-me-nots. Can be used for vintage-style greeting cards and gift tags or for decorating scrapbook pages and junk journals.

You can download the high-res 6.5" (w) x 4" (h) @ 300 ppi JPEGs without a watermark here (snowdrops) and here (forget-me-nots).


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Free Printable Bird Illustration for Altered Art, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Spring Doves with Basket of Forget-Me-Nots

Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
A vintage postcard from 1908 that shows a pair of white doves flying aloft as they carry a basket of brilliantly blue forget-me-nots contained within a basket with pink ribbons tied in bows for handles.

This colourful bird illustration would be lovely as the cover of a greeting card to a friend or loved one (Mother's Day, Valentine's Day or birthday) but could also be used in a mixed media art project or to decorate a scrapbook.

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Free Victorian Sheet Music and Vintage Nature Clipart for Cardmaking, Collage or Scrapbooking: Spring Bird Waltz and Bird with Spring Blossoms

Hello, everyone. Two free graphics this morning:

(1) An illustration from one of my books on wild birds, published in 1901. This bird is called the chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita), its name derived "...from the fancied resemblance of its notes to the words 'chiff chaff,' which are uttered with a quick, clear enunciation; the song is sweet and not unmelodious, and when alarmed the bird has a note of displeasure which sounds something like the word 'whoo-id' or 'whoo-it.'

...considered the earliest of our summer visitors, arriving in this country [England] sometimes in March, and remaining until October; indeed, of all small warblers, it is the first to come and the last to go."

Download the 4" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEG here.

(2) A light-hearted dance tune called "Spring Bird Waltz" from the August 1, 1858 issue of Young Ladies' Journal. You can download this antique sheet music as a 4" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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Whimsical Fairytale Illustrations for Card Making, Collage, Crafts or Scrapbooking: A Garden Fairy & A Spring Workman

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you
because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
― Roald Dahl
Two fairytale illustrations; the first shows a girl fairy sniffing a white blossom as she stands on the leaf of a rose bush, with a pink rose curling in towards her on the left. From a late 19th century Victorian trade card.

The second illustration was published in April 1874 and shows a small winged cherub with a paint palette and brush painting the colours onto a garden pansy, one of the first flowers to appear in spring. The caption that originally accompanied the drawing stated that this was "A Spring Workman (from a French picture)."

You can download the first illustration as a high-res 4" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEG here and the second illustration as a high-res 6" x 4" @ 300 ppi JPEG here. Both digital files are watermark-free and can be used for card making, collage, crafts, scrapbooking or other creative projects.


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Free Printable Botanical Illustration for Cardmaking, Collage, Journaling or Scrapbooking: Fly Honeysuckle (Lonicera xylosteum)

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise.
It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
— Ashley Montagu
Third and last colour plate from an antique French botany book that shows Lonicera xylosteum, also known as the fly honeysuckle. In the language of flowers, honeysuckle is a symbol of pure happiness. In addition, it conveys messages of sweetness and affection, thanks to the sweet smelling aroma it gives off. In a heavier interpretation, the honeysuckle is also said to represent the flames of love, and the tenderness for love that has been lost.

You can download this high-res printable botanical illustration (without a watermark) for cardmaking, collage, junk journaling or scrapbooking projects here.

Below is a sample journal cover I made with the illustration. If you would like to use the cover, you can find the high-res JPEG here.

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Free Botanical Illustration for Cardmaking, Collage, Journaling or Scrapbooking: Common Hazel (Corylus avellana)

Our world is falling apart quietly. Human civilization has reduced the plant,
a four-million-year-old life form, into three things: food, medicine, and wood...
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
Second colour plate from an antique French botany book that shows Corylus avellana, the common hazel, a species of hazel native to Europe and western Asia. To download this high-res printable botanical illustration (without a watermark) for cardmaking, collage, junk journaling or scrapbooking projects, please click here.

Here is an example of how I used it as a journal cover:

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Free Whimsical Fairytale Illustration for Cardmaking, Collage, Crafting or Scrapbooking: Overheard Between the Mice

A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
― Roald Dahl
A very sweet black and white fairy tale illustration from 1901 that shows a mischievous garden fairy with butterfly wings, creeping up close to listen in on a couple of mice's whispered conversation as they huddle under a tangle of nasturtium leaves. Originally captioned "Overheard Between the Mice." I wonder what they are saying?

You can download the high-res 6" x 4.5" @ 300 ppi JPG without a watermark for cardmaking, collage, crafting or scrapbooking project here.


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Free Botanical Illustration for Cardmaking, Collage, Journaling or Scrapbooking: Cornish Oak (Quercus sessiliflora)

Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed,
and a giant oak in an acorn.
― William Arthur Ward
A colour plate from an antique French botany book that shows the Quercus sessiliflora, the sessile oak, also known as the Cornish oak or Durmast oak. You can download this free printable botanical illustration (without a watermark) for cardmaking, collage, journaling or scrapbooking project here.


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