A picture library of beautifully drawn Victorian illustrations of life, work, and leisure.
Perfect for mounting and framing, greetings cards and stationery, social history projects and papers, books, magazines, museum and interpretation displays, TV and film.
Frisky carriage horses
Victorian illustration to download showing a picture of a young man trying to set off driving a carriage, a phaeton, but the horses are too frisky.
Harvest time: reaping
Victorian illustration showing harvest time. Men and women reap the wheat, bind it in sheaves and stack the sheaves in stooks.
Flower: primula sinensis
Victorian illustration to download showing a picture of a beautiful flower, primula sinensis alba plena.
Monkey house at the zoo
Victorian illustration to download showing a picture of well-dressed women and children in the monkey house at a zoo watching the animals.
Feeding chickens in the snow
Victorian illustration to download showing a picture of a woman feeding her chickens on a snowy day.
Trout leaping upstream
Victorian illustration to download showing a picture of two fish, trout, trying to leap upstream via a torrent of water pouring through a weir.
Houses of Parliament: building the Victoria Tower
Victorian illustration to download showing the Victoria Tower, Houses of Parliament being built in 1850. A steam-powered hoist lifts the blocks of stone.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Illustration to download showing a Victorian portrait of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.