Vintage Art

Illustrations, watercolors, paintings and other art pieces pulled from various vintage sources like books and photographs. Always legit, never made with AI.

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Art from ‘Twas the Night before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicholas (1912)

This book is an illustrated version of the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by (probably) Clement Clarke Moore (see Wikipedia). This version was published in 1912 by Houghton Mifflin, and was illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith. There’s some really nice art in this book, so I downloaded scans from the Internet Archive, cropped them, and reuploaded them here to share! This particular edition of the book, including its illustrations, are in the public domain now, so you can use them to make your own art, make little prints for your house (Christmas decorations, perhaps?) and so on. Click…

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23 Wizard of Oz Illustrations by W.W. Denslow (1900) – Chapter Headers

This is the second of several posts highlighting W.W. Denslow’s illustrations for the 1900 edition of L. Frank Baum’s book The Wizard of Oz. The first post focused on full-page color illustrations, while this one features the chapter “header” pages. These show up at the start of every chapter and are an entire page in themselves. While they’re not full-color, they do have SOME color, usually either red, green or yellow. To make this collection: I downloaded each image individually, lightly edited them (keeping the vintage aged paper look), then re-uploaded them here. I had to shrink the quality a…

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Illustrations from The Princess and the Goblin (1920 edition)

The Princess and the Goblin is a children’s fantasy book written by Scottish author George MacDonald in 1872. It’s one of my favorite books, highly recommend picking it up if you haven’t read it already! This edition, published in 1920 by David McKay Company, was illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith, one of my favorite artists from the early 20th century. I’ve used a scan from the Internet Archive to pull her illustrations for the book out into individual images and then uploaded them here for you all to enjoy. As they’re in the public domain, you can use them for…

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Illustrations from Rose Fyleman’s The Rainbow Cat (1923)

The Rainbow Cat is a children’s fantasy book written by British author Rose Fyleman, published originally in 1922. This edition was published by the George H. Doran company in New York in 1923. The art in this book was by American artist Thelma Cudlipp (listed as Thelma Cudlipp Grosvenor on the book itself). I like the balance of clear lines and delicate colors, and especially how cute the cats are! These images were collected from a PDF scan provided by the Library of Congress. They aren’t the clearest, unfortunately, but I thought they were very charming and I wanted to…

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26 Wizard of Oz Illustrations by W.W. Denslow (1900) – Full Color Pages

These were collected from the digitized version of the 1900 edition of The Wizard of Oz on the Library of Congress website. In that edition, all the illustrations were done by W.W. Denslow— you’ll probably recognize them because they’re used heavily in Oz products! As for this post: I downloaded each image individually, lightly edited them (keeping the vintage aged paper look), then re-uploaded them here! All these illustrations are in the public domain, so you can use them for personal or commercial things. If you do use them, it’d be nice to credit the original artist, W.W. Denslow. I…

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Winter Birds (& Poems) Vintage Cards

These images are from chromolithograph greeting cards made by L. Prang & Co. in the late 1800s in Boston. The artist was Hector Giacomelli, and the poems are signed E.S.F. You can download these images and use them for art, scrapbooking, junk journaling, etc.– they’re in the public domain in the US and come from the NYPL’s Digital Collection here. I’ve cropped them and made them into individual JPG images, which is what you see here. If you’d like higher quality PNGs at 300 DPI, or if you’d like a high quality printable page of all four images on one…

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Art from ‘Twas the Night before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicholas (1912)

23 Wizard of Oz Illustrations by W.W. Denslow (1900) – Chapter Headers

Illustrations from The Princess and the Goblin (1920 edition)

Illustrations from Rose Fyleman’s The Rainbow Cat (1923)

26 Wizard of Oz Illustrations by W.W. Denslow (1900) – Full Color Pages

Winter Birds (& Poems) Vintage Cards

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