Vintage Art Appreciation: Playing with Butterflies by Alois Hans Schram

Playing with Butterflies, 1895
by Alois Hans Schram (1864–1919)
She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.
― Lisa Genova, Still Alice

But on paper, things can live forever.
On paper, a butterfly never dies.
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

Vintage painting oiginally found on Wikimedia here. Digitally altered version can be downloaded as an 8” x 12” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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Printable Vintage Art: Mirabell Gardens by Hans Wilt

Mirabell Palace and the Mirabell Garden are amongst Salzburg's most popular attractions. The entire site, which is under a preservation order, belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage list.

Under Archbishop Johann Ernst Thun, the Mirabell Garden was reshaped around 1690 according to plans drawn up by baroque architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. The basic geometrical form characteristic of the Baroque age is still recognisable. The visual alignment towards Cathedral and Fortress lends the garden a grandiose effect, at the same time incorporating it into the historic townscape.

Mirabell Gardens, 1916
by Hans Wilt (1867–1917)
The painting above shows a family walking along a flower-lined path in Mirabell Gardens and was originally found on Wikimedia. Digitally enhanced version of the painting as an 8" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEG here. Lovely as a journal or scrapbook cover, greeting card or framed for wall decoration.


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Printable Vintage Art: Hollyhocks and Cats by an Unknown Artist

Hollyhocks and Cats, between 1368 and 1644
by an unknown artist

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

Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?
― Diane Duane

Vintage painting oiginally found on Wikimedia here. Digitally altered version can be downloaded as an 8.5" 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.