Lately I've been having tons of fun perusing public domain images on the internet. There are SO many beautiful photographs, illustrations, and glyphs that are ours for the using. My most recent favorite is Google Books, which has scanned thousands of old books whose copyrights have expired. It definitely takes some digging, but I think the results are worth it - just enter a search term and start clicking around through the PDFs. (They have copyrighted books, too, so you have to pay attention, but pretty much any book published before 1928 is fair game.)
This little vignette I pulled from OldBookIllustrations.com is from Contes populaires de Basse-Bretagne, published in Paris in 1887. The design opportunities for these things are endless! I'm so excited to pull some of these finds into cd art, invitations and other happy pieces!
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