Victorian Prints

You don't need a King to feel like a Queen! ― Victorian Trends An antique black and white illustration from 1875 that shows an elegant Victorian lady sitting on a tufted chair, wearing a very expensive looking day gown with various layers of bands, pleats, and flounces. Here is an example of a card I mde with this image: You can download the free 6" x 9" @ 300 ppi JPEGs without any words or watermark here . Great for cardmaking, collage or image transfers, as well as graphic design or junk journaling projects. All digitized work by Victorian Trends.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License . Free for personal use only. Please link back to VictorianTrends.com as your source when sharing or publishing.

Well, we were supposed to go out today and get Christmas cards to accompany our gifts but a winter storm has descended with a vengeance on southern Ontario so I stayed home and prepared these Victorian Christmas cards instead. If you're housebound like me, print these on your printer for last-minute card and gift exchanges or go paperless and email them to relatives and friends! The first card above has a Christmas reindeer decorative border on the upper part of the card and stylized Christmas trees on the bottom part of the card. To download the high-res 6" x 4" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark, please click here . The second card shows a decorative border illustrated with images from a Victorian Santa Claus Parade with Santa himself, fabulous gifts and magical beings galore. To download this whimsical card without any words, please click here . Vintage ephemera is from my personal collection. All digitized work by Victorian Trends.com is licensed under a Crea

A black and white illustration for a whimsical Christmas "menu" from December 1889 with the following items: Snowy Streets, Starry Skies Holidays; with Source of Joy *** -- *** Forefathers; pickled in Praise *** -- *** Shopping; en Masse Cards and Banners with Greetings *** -- *** Stockings á la Santa Claus Festivals; merry with Fir-trees and Mistletoe Gifts; flavored with Love *** -- *** Back-Logs, served whole *** -- *** Peace and Good-will; dressed with Charity *** -- *** Carols; Sweet :: :: Chiming Bells I have included both the original card with the full menu, and one where I have removed the menu items in case you want to use it as a template for other projects. Can be used for recipe cards, gift tags, as a menu at a festive dinner or in scrapbooking. To download the high-res 5" x 4" @ 300 ppi JPEGs without a watermark, please click here for the menu card with words and here for the blank Christmas card template. Vintage ephemera is

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. ― Lois Lowry, The Giver An antique black and white illustration from 1886 that shows three Victorian ladies sharing a memory of their childhood. An image of the three ladies as girls is shown in the drawing below the portraits of the ladies wearing their fancy hats. Both the drawings of the ladies and of the girls are enclosed within a frame of curving leaves and grasses. From my personal collection of La Mode Illustrée . You can download the free ready-to-print 4" x 5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without any watermark here . Great for cardmaking, crafts or image transfers, as well as junk journaling and scrapbooking projects. All digitized work by Victorian Trends.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License . Free for personal use only. Please link back to VictorianTrends.com as your source when sharing or publish

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ― Robert Louis Stevenson An antique illustration showing a mysterious, veiled Victorian lady in an ankle-length coat checking into a winter resort with her traveling companions.From my personal collection of La Mode Illustrée . You can download the free ready-to-print 4" x 5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without any watermark for cardmaking, collage, storytelling or framed art projects by clicking here . All digitized work by Victorian Trends.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License . Free for personal use only. Please link back to VictorianTrends.com as your source when sharing or publishing.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. ― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Left Hand of Darkness Edwardian illustration from 1904 shows passengers at a railway station saying their goobyes as the train prepares for departure. From my personal collection of La Mode Illustrée . You can download the free ready-to-print 5" x 4" @ 300 ppi JPEG without any watermark for cardmaking, collage, crafts or framed art projects by clicking here . All digitized work by Victorian Trends.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License . Free for personal use only. Please link back to VictorianTrends.com as your source when sharing or publishing.

But the beauty is in the walking; we are betrayed by destinations. ― Gwyn Thomas Two Victorian illustrations of people walking down the street from my personal collection of La Mode Illustrée . The first one shows a lady in a veil being led down the street by a young girl with a fancy folio. The second picture shows a mother and her two daughters on the cobblestoned street of what looks to be a bustling town, perhaps awaiting their carriage? You can download the free ready-to-print 4" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEGs without any watermark for cardmaking, collage, crafts or junk journaling projects by clicking here (lady with parasol and veil image) and here (mother and daughters image). All digitized work by Victorian Trends.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License . Free for personal use only. Please link back to VictorianTrends.com as your source when sharing or publishing.

A vintage Christmas postcardcard from the early 1900s. The front shows a pair of angelic cherubs holding a long blank scroll against a snow-covered Christmas tree with a sparkling star in the background. I have also included the postally unmarked postcard back that shows the imprint of the cherubs that were embossed on the front. Great for any upcoming Christmas projects. To download the high-res 6" x 4" @ 300 ppi JPEGs without a watermark, please click here for the postcard front and here for the postcard back. Vintage ephemera is from my personal collection. All digitized work by Victorian Trends.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License . Free for personal use only. Please link back to VictorianTrends.com as your source when sharing or publishing.

A black and white fashion engraving from my collection of Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine , December 1875 issue. Here is the description from the magazine: Nos. 1 and 2 are illustrations showing the front and back of a visiting costume. The demi-train skirt is of olive-green faille, with the lower portion of the triple-plaited back-breadths trimmed with a deep half-plaited flounce, with a heading of small puffs and a stand-up ruffle, the sides and front-breadths being crossed with three gathered flounces -- the two first ones surmounted with rouleaux , and the third one with a succession of narrow folds. The long paletôt is of basket-woven plaid cloth of the same shade; the pointed fronts, trimmed with silk revers with velvet-faced corners, are confined by mold-covered buttons. The short back terminates under a bow and ends of wide sash ribbon, and the neck is decorated with a heart-shaped collar of silk, having a stand-up collar of velvet and velvet corners, from which depen

Christmas is not a date on a calendar. It’s more than a state of mind. It’s a condition of the heart. ― Toni Sorenson A vintage, hand-tinted French real photo postcard (RPPC) from 1912. It shows a young Edwardian lady holding branches of holiday greenery with the words "Joyeux Noël " at the top left corner of the card. You can download the high-res 5" x 7" @ 300 ppi JPEG without any watermark here for holiday cardmaking or Christmas scrapbooking projects. All digitized work by Victorian Trends.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License . Free for personal use only. Please link back to VictorianTrends.com as your source when sharing or publishing.