Delicate message frame with finials and flourishes. Another of the great page spaces with plenty of space from lettering from Thomas Hill’s large book that was published in 1882. Like so many of these message frame borders, this one could easily be made wider or narrower with a bit of editing.
Thomas E. Hill published Hill’s Album of Biography and Art in 1882. It included a number of wonderful illustrations and stock print foundry images.
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.