Where to find vintage illustrations




















Charming drawing of mother and daughter sewing together. Dates back to a book on Hungarian folklore. Basket Parts. Camera with Tripod. Vintage cover paper from an old seed catalog. Lovely public domain golden marbled background for your digital and printed art projects.

Black and Gold Endpaper Background. Green Leaf Endpaper. Oh what a striking birds drawing. Bird Pair. Falco Peregrinus Minor. Diamonds, Flowers and Clover Leafs in a simple repeating pattern for use as borders or page spacers.

Man with Fruit. Peacock Feather Bouquet. An interesting example of a purple martin house. Vintage barrel birdhouse drawing from Barn Birdhouse Drawing. Fancy Martin House. Waiting for Santa. A sweet vintage Clapsaddle postcard with two little ones desperately trying to catch Santa. A Merry Christmas Sled. Christmas Poinsettia. Evening dress in featuring a bodice and jacket pattern from a fashion magazine. The idea of sewing something like this makes me absolutely cringe.

Crown Drawing. Four Lovely Ladies. A charming little, black and white drawing of a trio of kids fishing. The fishing pole is three times the size of the children. So fun. Friends Fishing.

Narcissus Flowers. Flower Head Drawing. Full-page and full-color vintage pink plume celery drawing. A pretty celery plant with a bit of pink shading. Looks pretty in the garden or on a plate. Vintage Cabbage Drawing. Dandelion Drawing. Vintage metal wheelbarrow drawing from A great black and white illustration to use with your own art and creative projects. Pierre Bonnard. Edward Burne-Jones. Abbott Handerson Thayer.

John Margolies. George Bellows. Alfred Stieglitz. Hiram Eratus Butler - Solar Biology. Richard Roland Holst. Leonetto Cappiello. Franz Marc. Joris Hoefnagel. Luc-Olivier Merson. Hu Zhengyan. John Edwards. Public Domain Gardens. Hannah Borger Overbeck. Samuel Colman. Aert Schouman. John Gould. Dictionnaire Universel D'histoire…. Vintage Japanese Flowers. Leo Gestel. Henry Somm.

Kogyo Tsukioka. The Grammar of Ornament. Piet Mondrian. Public Domain Animal Photography. Willem van Leen. Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau. Because they are in the public domain and authors technically have no obligation to credit the Library, the sky is the limit.

The images have been used on stickers, coloring books, games, music album covers and, inevitably a few Photoshop-enabled gags. He also took an illustration of ships coming to shore and had it printed it on a rug. The Library is hoping that the rich trove of visual material will create alluring starting points for both scholarly and artistic projects.

Although the books were no longer protected by copyright, their obscurity was cloaking them from public attention. By making the images freely available, the idea is to give them back to the public, and thereby make them important again. By providing your email, you agree to the Quartz Privacy Policy. Skip to navigation Skip to content.



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