Vintage Drawing of Men in Suits Wearing Hats

  

 

Vintage Drawing of Men in Suits and Hats

 

Here is a contemporary looking vintage or antique drawing of two men.
The illustration features two head shots of  men wearing suits, ties, and hats.
The hat on the right appears to be a Derby or Bowler hat.
As for the hat in the left picture ??, perhaps a Porkpie hat?

This image will go well in themes like:
Vintage
Yesteryear
Masculine
Classic

Source:
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Steintorpl., 20099 Hamburg, Germany
MKG Collection Online
Sited as Public Domain / CC 1.0
CC 1.0 info can be found here
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Swallowtail Butterfly Watercolor

 
Watercolor of a Swallowtail Butterfly

This Swallowtail Butterfly is resting at the top center (well, almost) of an oval frame.
Remove the frame, recenter the butterfly, or use it as it is and add more butterflies.
The download from NGA is a high resolution image so you can even
just use the butterfly in other projects.

Source: National Gallery of Art
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20565
Sited as Public Domain, with
Open Access under CC0 Creative Commons Zero

Modele of a Horse Walking

  

Model of a Horse Walking

This model of a Horse walking was made of pigmented beeswax!
Because the brown horse is outlined nicely,
this walking horse statue is a good starting place for creating silhouettes and stencils.

Source: National Gallery of Art
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20565
Sited as Public Domain, with
Open Access under CC0 Creative Commons Zero

Wall of Butterflies

  

Wall of Butterflies in Yellow Orange and Blue

Vintage or Antique wallpaper featuring Butterflies of all kinds and colors.
There are even some pretty Moths.
Each Butterfly and Moth is different.
This is a wonderful print just as it is.
You are sure to find one in the color you like.
These butterflies are Blue, Yellow, and Orange.
There are even some multicolored ones with Green!

Source: Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128

Vertical Image of Stag Deer Standing Beside a River

 

 

Vertical Image of Stag Deer Standing Beside a River

Here is a great image for use in Winter or Christmas themes.
The Vertical Landscape Painting features a Stag Deer standing next to a River.
The background shows a bare tree against a backdrop of dark blue sky
with a background of mountains covered in snow.

Source: The Renwick Gallery
1661 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license

Landscape of Trees in a Park with City in the background

  

Landscape of Trees in a Park with City in background

This image features a Vertical Landscape with tall Trees in the foreground.
The rest of the illustration shows a River with Mountains and a City outlined in the background.
The original painting is a watercolor and the colors are browns, tans, blues, and greens.

This is great little illustration when you are looking for a vertical image.

Source: The Renwick Gallery
1661 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license

Silhouette of a Boy and a Little Dog

  

Sihouette of a Boy with a Little Dog

Here is a silhouette of a boy teaching his little dog to sit up on it's hind legs.
The download available from Smithsonian Online is a high resolution image.
With most any photo editing software or drawing program
you can crop down to just the little dog.
This would make a great stencil for placing the little dog in other backgrounds.

 Source: The Renwick Gallery
1661 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license

White Dog on a Cushion

  

White Dog Lying on a Red Cushion

 This little white Spitz-looking doggie pattern is a design for Embroidery.
The design is placed over a blue background with a graph paper grid.

Source: Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128

Woman in a Blue coat sitting on a chair

 

 

Woman wearing Blue - sitting in a chair

 

Here is something to add a little color to your junk journals and ephemera.
The original painting is a watercolor.
It features a woman wearing a Blue top sitting in a chair.
She appears to be working on a project of fabric, perhaps knitting or cross-stitch.
There is Blue along the bottom of the image to "tie" the whole painting together.
Notice how the chair and the color of her cheek also match!
This image has many colors without any individual color standing alone
or distracting from the full image.

 

Source: The Renwick Gallery
1661 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license

A Funny Looking Dog

 

 

 

Funny Looking Dog

 

Here is a cute, funny, happy looking little dog to cheer your day up a little! 

Source: Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128

Drawing of a Sitting Dog Looking to the side

 

 

Drawing of a Sitting Dog looking to the side

 

This illustration of a Dog is drawn over graph squares that were placed
to guide the artist and help keep the body parts in proportion.

 

The drawing was originally designed as part of a mural to go in the Iowa State Capital building.

 

Source: The Renwick Gallery
1661 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license

Sidewalk Among the Trees - Border

  

Sidewalk Among the Trees - Border

This looks like it would make a nice place to take walk.

This Border features a Mountain scene with clouds and water in the distance.
The foreground shows tall and short trees with a sidewalk that curves to go between the trees.
A scrolling band goes along the bottom to complete the border.

Source: Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128

Three Putti with a Fishing Net

 

 

Three Putti with a Fishing Net

 

This Round drawing features four Putti playing in a water garden.
The title is "Three Putti..." but if you look in the upper right of the Circle
you will see a fourth little Putti / Cherub pouring water from a jug!

 

Since this Circular illustration is cropped close to the edge; when you print it out,
you can set your printer to print to measurements that are the nearest size of your round punch or cutting guide.

If you don't have a punch or other guide try this:
Round cookie cutters or metal bells with handles make great guides for drawing and cutting circles.
Because they usually don't have thick rounded edges;
they sit flat on the surface and have a clean edge that "sits" well on the paper.
This gives you a way to easily press down hard on the paper (to keep it from moving), while the handles help keep your non-dominant hand out of the way while you trace or cut around the shape outline with a craft blade.

Source: National Gallery of Art
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20565
Sited as Public Domain, with
Open Access under CC0 Creative Commons Zero

Corner Border with Palm Shaped Hearts and Rosettes

 

 

Corner Border with Palm Shaped Hearts and Rosettes

 Here is a nice pattern for a corner.
It has a Rosette in the corner box and the Border Edge has Palm-like shapes with Hearts.

Source: Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silhouette of Fox Hunters on Horseback

 

 

Silhouette of Fox Hunters on Horseback

 This silhouette shows Fox Hunters on Horseback.

The Smithsonian has not yet included a high resolution download.
The Smithsonian has listed this image as CC0 so it is in the public domain.
Since it is CC0 you can right click the image (via the hyperlink above) and copy the screen image.
The resulting copy should do fine for online use.
(The image is only 72ppi so will have jagged edges if printed)

I experimented with Windows 10 "Snipping" tool.
(on keyboard press: Windows Key + Shift + S)
I cropped the picture by clicking and dragging the mouse.
A small auto pop-up stated "Snip saved to clipboard. Click here to markup and share the image".
Clicking took me to the "Snip and Sketch" (included in Windows 10).
I clicked the three ellipses on the top right, selected "print",
In the print pop-up I left the defaults alone and hit the "print" button at the bottom.
The resulting print wasn't great, but it wasn't too bad.
The image printed was 6 3/4" x 4 1/2"
I enlarged the image by photocopying and ended up with an image I can use to make a stencil.
Actually, I am more interested in making a stencil of just the trees :)

Source: Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128

Wreath of Holly Leaves with Candles and a Tree

 

 

Wreath of Holly Leaves with Candles and a Tree

This would make a unique Christmas Card.
Using a photo editing software to erase the handwritten notes will make the image dramatic.

Source: Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128
 

Bookplate of a Fan with Colonial Dames of America on Ribbon

 

 

Bookplate Shaped like a fan with ribbon.

 This bookplate shows a folding fan with a flowing ribbon.
Written in the ribbon are the words "Colonial Dames of America".

With a some photo editing the words can be removed or replaced to make a nice nameplate.

Source: Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bird Among the Peonies Stencil

  

 Bird Among the Peonies Stencil

 This stencil is held together with silk threads.
This type of stencil was used in Japan to dye textiles in a process known as
Katagami.

 Source: Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128

 

Decorative Panel with Flowers and Wreaths

 

 

Decorative Panel with Flowers and Wreaths

 

These Panels feature a vase of flowers in a pattern called "The Tree of Life".
Looks like a heart to me :)

Urns were a common theme included in classical artwork as well as the decades just before and after 1900.
Because the urn is with "The Tree of Life"; it is likely a symbol celebrating life.
(If you would like to read a short piece about how urns were seen as positive images;
I found a great explanation on the "Bienenstock Furniture Library".)

 
Photo Source:Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128

Antique Shop Sign in the Shape of a Key

 

 

 

Antique Shop Sign in the Shape of a Key

 

This wooden shop sign has a nice outline of an antique key.

It can be used as it is or make it into a silhouette.

Try printing it in high contrast
(on a laser printer or a copy machine is best)
and using the print as a transfer in Gelli prints.

Source: National Gallery of Art
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20565
Sited as Public Domain, with
Open Access under CC0 Creative Commons Zero

 

Mechanical Valentine with Kaleidoscope movement

  

Mechanical Valentine with Kaleidoscope Movement

This Valentine features a pull / push tab that makes the image change.
The center image changes from a circle of flowers and ribbons to
flying Cherubs among the clouds.

Below is a closer look at parts of this card

 

 

Source:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028
Sited as Public Domain, with
Open Access under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license

A Song about Isaac

 

 

Music Sheet about Isaac

This image and music was made around 1275.
The picture shows Isaac asking Esau to bring him food from hunting.
The blue background has delicate etchings that bring to mind stars, and also ice.

 Source: National Gallery of Art
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20565
Sited as Public Domain, with
Open Access under CC0 Creative Commons Zero

Flower Page Border

  

Flower Page Border

A column of flower blooms are drawn next to a column with
circles of leaves with flowers inside.

This is a nice piece for creating page borders.

 Source:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028
Sited as Public Domain, with
Open Access under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license

Drawing of a Horse

  

Drawing of a Horse

This would make a neat carousel horse.
With a little photo editing, he will also make a good rocking horse.

 Source:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028
Sited as Public Domain, with
Open Access under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license

Five Vintage Butterflies

 

Sheet of Antique Butterflies

 Here is nice little collection of butterflies to add to your next art project.
They were originally intended as patterns for jewelry.

 Source:
RIJKS Museum
Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam, Netherlands
©: listed as Public Domain with CC1.0 license
More information about CC1.0 can be found here:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en

 

Flower Studies

  

Flower Studies

This flower study features a Rose, a Heartease, a Sweet Pea, a Garden Pea,
and a Lax- flowered Orchid.

It will make a nice art print just as it is or,
soften the edges for a more romantic mood.

Source:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028
Sited as Public Domain, with
Open Access under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license

Carousel Woman

Carousel Woman

Some carousels had large steam whistles; called calliope,
hidden inside figures such as this well balanced lady.
She will also go well with a Circus theme.

Source: National Gallery of Art
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20565
Sited as Public Domain, with
Open Access under CC0 Creative Commons Zero

Flowers tied with Tassels

 

Flowers Tied with Tassels

 This Victorian style flower illustration features
Roses and other flowers tied with tassels.
It would make a nice border or bookmark.

Source: RIJKS Museum
Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam, Netherlands
©: listed as Public Domain with CC1.0 license
More information about CC1.0 can be found here:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en

 

Angel Butterfly

 

Angel Butterfly

This butterfly looks a little bit like an angel.
This a wonderful piece for making patterns for vintage and antique ephemera designs.

Source:
RIJKS Museum
Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam, Netherlands
©: listed as Public Domain with CC1.0 license
More information about CC1.0 can be found here:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en

The Thinker Le Penseur

 

The Thinker

 Here is a cast
of the sculpture
that made a simple pose
recognized in all languages.

Source: National Gallery of Art
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20565
Sited as Public Domain, with
Open Access under CC0 Creative Commons Zero

Pet Dog Carousel Ride

 

 Brown Dog Carousel Animal

 This Carousel Ride looks like a pet dog.
So, Wheres the Cat?
(...& The Guinea Pig, and the rabbit, and the turtle, and the fish, and the....)

 Source: National Gallery of Art
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20565
Sited as Public Domain, with
Open Access under CC0 Creative Commons Zero

 

Dress and Matching Top

 

 Dress and Top

This dress is from the 1930's.
This drawing could have been for showing a Winter & Summer version of the dress.

It is nice piece to print as is.. or taken individually-
the clothing can be used across pages to unite a project into a theme.
With a little more time invested; they would make a great wardrobe set for paper dolls.

Source: National Gallery of Art
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20565
Sited as Public Domain, with
Open Access under CC0 Creative Commons Zero

 

 

 

Buck Stag Deer Resting

 

Buck Stag Deer Resting

Here is a Deer for your woodland and forest themed items.
It is a drawing of a Stag, a Buck, or just a Deer.
This artwork would also make a nice coloring page project.

 Source: National Gallery of Art
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20565
Sited as Public Domain, with
Open Access under CC0 Creative Commons Zero