Victorian Clipart

I have a weakness for old Victorian clipart: Victorian illustrations of all kinds like Victorian drawings of animals, old vehicles, Victorian silhouettes and a maybe especially clipart of Victorian ladies with their wonderful dresses.

Here on this page I have collected the kind of Victorian pictures I love the most.
I have restored most of them and made them larger, and now you can have a look at them and see if any of these free Victorian graphics could be fun to use.

I don't know if my weakness for both Victorian and Vintage pictures and drawings has something to do with there being a kind of innocence about them.
I guess that feeling of innocence might only be there because these drawings and illustrations are from the past, but anyway - I like them.

One of the many ways I have used these drawings has been using the for scrapworks I make on the computer.
Sometimes I color the drawings, sometimes I use them together with black and white illustrations.

To see the rules for using my material and how to find and save the best version, please go to Homepage and read more about that.
There you will also find a very illustrative overview of all the main pages here on Clipartqueen.com. 

If you are into Steam Punk and the Victorian era, this is absolutely the right page for you!

      

Ladies Victorian style:

I simply love these wonderful Victorian clip art of ladies and girls wearing the latest Victorian fashion.

I have saved them in the PNG format, which means they come with a transparent background, and you can place them on any kind of background.
Thus they will be perfect for you if you are making some Victorian scrapworks.

Women in old everyday clothing	Victorian lady and girl with umbrella
Ladies Victorian style	Free Victorian graphics
Victorian clip art women's dresses	Victorian dresses and hats
Dressed for a walk	Victorian women in everyday clothes
Two Victorian ladies	Little girls in Victorian dresses
Two Victorian ladies in dresses PNG

 As this clipart is made with transparent background, I have had to make them smaller to be able to place them here on this website.

Still, they are a bit larger than you see them here, as most of my clipart, so click the illustration you like to open the larger version in a new tab. This is the version you get when you use the download button.

     

 

When and what was the Victorian Era?

I think most of us use the concepts ”Victorian” and ”Vintage” a bit random, at least I and most of the people I know do that.

Making these pages with Victorian clipart, Victorian frames and other Victorian subject, as well as having a page with Vintage Clipart, has forced me to take it a bit more serious, and actually it is quite interesting.

So here it is:
”Victorian” describes the time from 1837 to 1901, the period where Queen Victoria ruled Great Britain.

"Vintage" is a definition that varies in period depending what kind of product you describe. But it will, for cars, be used on cars from the start of the 20th century, and certainly from 1919 - 1930. For clothing it will be used for genuine clothing from 1920 until 20 years from now, this meaning approx. 1990. Normally it will be used for clothing from 1920 to 1970.
But - as the normal meaning of the two periods actually overlap, I will do that now and again.

The Victorian era  was a period with many changes, maybe first of all because of the second industrial revolution in 1870 – 1914.

At the start of the Victorian period the land traffic was totally dominated by horse wagons of all kinds, as you can see on the drawings below here.
All personal and trade traffic was made by horse carriages and wagons, and the traffic at sea was dominated by ships with sails.

In the second industrial revolution came a flowering of new and earlier technology like telegraph, railway networks, gas and water supply, electrical power and telephones.

The first automobile was patented in 1896 by Karl Benz, and Henry Ford built his first car in 1896, so the automobile is present in the late end of the Victorian era, but only barely.

The first sea-going iron steamboat was built in 1820, and in 1843 was built the first ”modern” ship, built of metal rather than wood, and powered mainly by a steam engine and propeller, instead of by sails, wind and oars. 

       

Free Victorian Graphics of Vehicles; Cars, Ships and Trains.

Wonderful Victorian steam train and peoples reactions

       

There is no doubt, looking at the picture above, that the steam locomotives caused both excitement and fear in the beginning.

Drawing of Steam train 1973

Locomotive and tender

Steam Boat	Victorian carriage
Victorian train station scene	Steam locomotive
Sail ship sketch	Victorian clipart ship drawing

Two drawings of Victorian Ice carriages

A horse drawn hearse

Two antique wagons

Two Victorian clip art of coal wagons

Two free Victorian graphics with first a horse car with passengers, later a trolley car driven by electricity.

Two old drawings of Steam boats, both paddle steamers.

Vintage steamboat "Pilgrim"

Victorian Steam ships on Hudson river

 

        

Victorian Clipart of Animals

The Victorian illustrations of animals will mostly be drawings of farm animals as those were important to the whole rural life.

If not illustrations of cows and hen, then it could be drawings of trotters or galloping horses, and sometimes even drawings of strange creatures like giant octopi or tigers, animals only few people had actually seen.

Most of the drawings here are prints, and they come with the white background.

A couple of these Victorian animal illustrations are made as cut outs from paintings from the Victorian era, and they are with a transparent background, like the clip art of the fashionable ladies above.

In this way you can use them on top of colored backgrounds or for making scrapworks with Victorian flower ornaments and landscapes.

Old drawing of a cow

A drawing with colors of two bulls

      

Victorian clip art bull's head	Free Victorian graphics bull's head

 

Victorian bull illustration

Victorian illustration with sheep

  

Victorian illustration of rooster	Hen or Rooster? illustration
Victorian animal illustration raccoon?	Crowing rooster
Turkey bird illustration	Drawing of stag JPEG
Drawing of rooster

Victorian farmers with pigs

                   
Here comes some free Victorian clip art of horses.
You will find a lot more old horse drawings on the main page for Antique clip art.

Scene from race course

Gallop race

Horse trotting

Drawing of sulkies

Hunting scene with dogs

      

Victorian Clipart of Hands

These old clipart of pointing hands, writing hands and so on are typical for Victorian illustrations.

Pointing hand old style 1	Pointing hand old style 2
Black drawing pointing hand right	Black drawing pointing hand left hand
Victorian drawing hand	Victorian drawing of hand
Old drawing of hand writing	Hand writing image
Old Victorian drawing of hand writing	Hand writing drawing
Right hand writing	Image of hands paper pen and ink
Handshake 1	Handshake 2
Woman man handshake	Drawing of hand Victorian

Victorian image two hands painting a letter

Hand and flower clipart Victorian PNG

           

In addition to these free Victorian graphics of hands, here comes some drawings of eyes and other Victorian clipart:

Various Victorian Clipart:

Victorian drawing of an eye JPEG	Drawing of an eye JPEG
Coffee pot and cups JPEG	Victorian clock JPEG
Cornucopia	Laurel Wreath
Victorian Graphophone	The Eagle Graphophone
	Revolver

                                

      

        

There will be more various Victorian graphics later, but now I want to end this page with a wonderful Victorian Clip art you can use for scrapworks or for an invitation for a picnic:

Where Would You Like to Go Next?

 

Victorian Ornaments: Beautiful swirled ornaments to use for decorations, making cards and together with Victorian silhouettes.	Victorian Silhouette: Wonderful old silhouettes of women, men and children, both head silhouettes and silhouettes of daily doings.
Antique Clipart: The main page for all the pages here with old clip art, from Victorian to old Greek and Medieval clip art.	Victorian Frames and Borders: Borders and frames for invitations, templates for cards etc.
Victorian Coloring Pages: Coloring pages with flowers and children playing with their old fashioned toys.	Victorian Ladies' Dress Hats: Take a look at these charming old hats with feathers and flowers.

 

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