The Bird's-Foot Trefoil Fairy – Historic Print
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The Bird's-Foot Trefoil Fairy comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Bird's-Foot Trefoil Fairy
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Few plants in the British countryside have a stranger name than bird's-foot trefoil, whose seed pods are said to look like a bird's toes. In this painting, Cicely Mary Barker gives that small yellow meadow flower a fairy who seems to belong to the sunlit grass where the plant grows. Barker's Flower Fairies books, published in the 1920s, pair each wildflower with a child-sized figure so that young readers could learn to recognize plants by their shapes and seasons. The bird's-foot trefoil is a common plant of pastures and roadsides, and its folk names, such as "eggs and bacon," show how closely country people once watched it.
| Original scan | 2,172 × 1,516 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Bird's Foot Trefoil Fairy Card Topper |
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