Fairy with butterfly wings smelling lilac blossoms – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Fairy with butterfly wings smelling lilac blossoms, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Fairy with butterfly wings smelling lilac blossoms
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A winged figure bends over a spray of lilac in this picture, her butterfly wings catching the light as she leans in to breathe in the blossoms. Fairy subjects of this kind were popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when illustrators drew on folklore and the new taste for dainty, nature-based imagery to create gentle, decorative scenes for books, cards and magazines. Lilac, with its strong perfume and short spring season, often stood for youth and fleeting beauty, so the pairing of the fairy with the flower adds a quiet note of sentiment. The board places it among angels and fairies, a reminder of how easily the two were treated as cousins in Victorian and Edwardian art.
| Original scan | 1,200 × 900 px · prints to 4 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Fantasy Fairies077 |
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