Vintage illustrations

[Loopy Lisa]

I'm looking for some of those old-skool vintage illustrations that you used to see back in the day for a project I am working on. Anything of the romantic nature is preferred.

Thankfully I have attached an image of something similar to the look I am seeking because my descriptive nature has failed me today, lol.

And if anyone knows the exact term, other than "vintage" so I can search for it online, that would be great.

Thanks in advance...

[PrintDriver]

Have you checked out any of the Dover 'clip art' publications? I gotta say though, I don't remember any quite this date-ish.

^that image would be vintage (looks like the illustration work from the old Reader books from my grade school days) – with the exception of the silly flourish.

There may be some online resources I could dig up but you would probably have to pay $.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Aren't all the Dover collections black and white? I could be wrong...

[Bladez]

yea, I'd definitely call it vintage. And if you do a quick search for the Dick and Jane and/or See Spot Run books, you'll see that the artwork (same style) is also referred to as vintage.

[frankster]

As much as it probably shouldn't be labelled this way, I suspect you'll find appropriate images searching with "retro" as well as "vintage".

[NTLemon]

Veer has a decent amount of vintage style images.

[Pix_Z]

It looks like something Dover might carry. Dover's been moving into color lately. You can go to their website and sign up for free samples.

http://store.doverpublications.com/

[bulgariacalling]

A quick search for 'Vintage Illustration' at istockphoto returns over 27,000 images.

I waded through the first 10 pages but didn't find anything like your example, but it may be worth trying with a few more keywords to narrow down the results?

[AbiJ]

it reminds me of those paper cut out things you get - like stickers but not sticky, I don't have a clue what they're called so probably not much help!