Printable Vintage Art: Beneath the Birches by Carl Larsson

Beneath the Birches, 1902
by Carl Larsson (1853–1919)

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Beneath you birch with silver bark
And boughs so pendulous and fair,
The brook falls scattered down the rock:
and all is mossy there.
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.
The only thing that could spoil a day was people
and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits.
People were always the limiters of happiness
except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

You can download a digitally enhanced version of the vintage painting (as seen above) as a high-res 7” x 11” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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

Illustrated Template for Announcements, Invitations, Journaling and Various Other Design Projects: At the End of the Lane

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.
― Samuel Butler, Erewhon

Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see. We walk in our sleep and teach our muscles to work without thinking and I dare you to walk where you have not yet walked and I dare you to notice. Don’t try to get anything out of it, because you won’t. Don’t try to make use of it, because you can’t. And that’s the point. Just walk, see, sit down if you like. And be. Just be, whatever you are with whatever you have, and realise that that is enough to be happy.

There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

Late 19th century illustration of a Victorian lady who has come to end of a fenced lane on one her walks. In the background you can see that she has come a long way with open sky, large field and tall trees framing the scene. Can be used for announcemnts, invitations, journaling and various other design projects. High-res 5.5” x 9.5” @ 300 ppi JPEG without any words/watermark can be found here.


From my personal collection of ephemera. These images are to be incorporated into your creative works. Not for resale “as-is.”

Printable Vintage Art: Girl and Bluebells, Brighouse Bay by Edward Atkinson Hornel

Girl and Bluebells, Brighouse Bay, 1919
by Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864–1933)

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We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

You can download a digitally enhanced version of the vintage painting (as seen above) as a high-res 9” x 6” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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