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Fantasy Fairies069 – Historic Print

Fantasy Fairies069 — historic image
Fantasy Fairies069. Historic image from the Religious collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Fantasy Fairies069, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Fantasy Fairies069

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Catalogued as a numbered entry in a Fantasy Fairies series, this piece sits in a run of related images rather than standing alone. The board files it under religious occasions beside angels, a pairing that reflects how winged figures in Western art moved between devotional and folkloric meaning. Nineteenth-century Britain saw a strong vogue for fairy painting, drawing on folk tales and Shakespeare's *A Midsummer Night's Dream*. Worth noticing is how the same wings could signal a heavenly messenger or a woodland spirit, depending on the viewer.

Original scan1,200 × 900 px · prints to 4 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceFantasy Fairies069

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