MISCELLANEOUS Selection of Vintage Design Elements – 1800s Antique Stock Artwork
The type foundry and print shop of old would create books, like the one this image was discovered within, to help customers and clients with their design choices. Naturally, these books were jam packed with useful illustrative elements that could be combined to create a final piece. Today, these books are extremely difficult to get a hold of. Especially those that were published in the late 1800s. They were not mainstream publications, they simply served as 'catalogs' and thus were only produced in small numbers. Fortunately, we were introduced to a collector who had precisely what we had been searching for for so long. After some costly negotiations, we're very excited to be able to share the wonderful gems within.
- License Info
- Resolution: 7563 x 5363
- Year of Print: Late 1800s
- Artist: Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry
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Vintage Illustration of Goose Skeleton with Detailed Wing Structure as Transparent PNG
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- Resolution: 4402px x 4667px
- Image Type(s): PNG
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Great Tortoiseshell Butterfly Illustration on Transparent Background
Detailed illustration of a great tortoiseshell butterfly with open wings, displaying intricate patterns, isolated on a transparent background.
- Resolution: 2075px x 1558px
- Image Type(s): PNG
- Animal
- antenna
- Art
- Beauty
- Black and white
- Butterfly
- Decorative
- delicate
- detailed
- distinctive
- Drawing
- Entomology
- Flight
- Flutter
- Garden
- great
- Identification
- illustration
- Insect
- Insects
- isolated
- lepidoptera
- Natural History
- Nature
- Ornamental
- Ornate
- ornithology
- PNG
- pollinator
- sketch
- species
- Species Identification
- Tortoiseshell
- transparent background
- Wildlife
- Wing Patterns
- Wings
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- Year of Print: 1900
- Artist: Knight & Rumley
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