Here are two vintage book plate scans featuring beautiful illustrations of butterflies and moths. The first is Plate III. The illustrations included on this page are: #17. Small White. Larva. Pieris rapae. #18 and #19. Small White. Pupa. Pieris rapae. #20. Small White. Male. Pieris rapae. #21. Small White. Female. Pieris rapae. #22. Small White….
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Free Vintage Butterfly Illustration
This vintage book page features an illustration of one small butterfly in flight. The butterfly is surrounded by white space on the page. Here is a black and white clip art version of the butterfly. I scanned the original book page from an antique book in my collection titled Nearer my God to Thee. The…
Vintage Butterfly Clip Art Frame
This beautiful vintage clip art design features several butterflies within a square-shaped rope frame. The design was originally created to be an embroidery pattern for a pincushion cover. I scanned the original image from the October 1897 issue of The Delineator magazine.
Victorian Girl Discovers a Butterfly
Here is an illustration of a young Victorian girl, named May, playing outdoors in summer. May has discovered a flower with pretty yellow wings that flies all over the garden. She calls her mother to come to the window to see. When her mother comes to have a look, she sees that her daughter has…
Butterfly Stencil Clip Art
Here is a lovely vintage clip art illustration of a butterfly and another smaller design that matches the center part of the butterfly. The images are stencils from the Priscilla Fancy Work Catalogue, 1910. Click on image to enlarge.
Butterflies and Flowers ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
This beautiful three-piece vintage embroidery pattern includes butterflies, flowers and leaves. The original pattern was intended for a shirtwaist, front, collar and cuffs. The magazine article I scanned this illustration from suggests that an excellent effect for this pattern is to have the leaves and petals solid, the center of the flowers eyelet work, and…
Beautiful Butterfly ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
This beautiful image of a Large Cabbage Butterfly is from the Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening – A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture, edited by George Nicholson, circa 1885. Click on image to enlarge.
Rose and Butterfly Loving Greetings Postcard ~ Free Vintage Image
This lovely vintage postcard features a pretty pink rose nestled among a cluster of small white flowers and leaves. There is a yellow butterfly with open wings above the flowers. The message on this old postcard is: Loving Greetings. Here is a version without the message Click on images to enlarge.
Vintage Butterfly Chatelette Pin Clip Art
Here is a lovely vintage butterfly (or moth?) brooch. The image is from a 1907 catalogue that describes this piece of jewelry as a fancy chatelette that could be used for a lace pin. It was gold plated with a bright polish and the cost was 11 cents, 6 for 59 cents or 12 for…
Beautiful Butterfly Fairy No. 2
Here is another beautiful butterfly fairy nestled amongst a cluster of flowers on the branch of a tree. I uploaded the first butterfly fairy to my blog this morning, it’s available here. This vintage image is from the May 1904 issue of The Delineator magazine. Click on image to enlarge.
Beautiful Butterfly Fairy
This beautiful black and white clip art butterfly fairy is nestled within a cluster of flowers on the branch of a tree. The image is from the May 1904 issue of The Delineator magazine. There is another butterfly fairy illustration in the magazine that I’ll prepare to upload for you later today. Click on image…
Free Vintage Image ~ Flowering Clover Postcard
Here is a vintage Tuck’s birthday postcard with an image of flowering clover spilling out from a red basket that has been tipped over or placed on its side. There is a butterfly flying toward the flowers and a message on a card tucked in the clover that says Loving Birthday Greetings. For added creative…
