This vintage vignette image is unique for it features a balance or scale. It might be useful as a vignette, border, or page spacer for someone looking for images that depict balance, justice or fairness.
When author Laura Valentine (d. 1899) and her publisher Frederick Warne and Co. began selling Aunt Louisa’s Welcome Visitor in the 1870s, I bet they never would have thought that 140 years later people would still be enjoying their work.
This image is copyright free and in the public domain anywhere that extends copyrights 70 years after death or at least 120 years after publication when the original illustrator is unknown.