The Bird's Foot Trefoil Fairy, eight repeated label sheet – Vintage Print
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This historic image of The Bird's Foot Trefoil Fairy, eight repeated label sheet brings a moment of history to your wall. 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, eight repeated label sheet
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Bird's-foot trefoil gets its name from its slender, curved seed pods, which look like a bird's claws, and the plant's bright yellow flowers often take on a reddish tint as they age. Here the flower becomes a small winged fairy, one of the figures Cicely Mary Barker drew for her popular Flower Fairies books, which began appearing in the 1920s. Showing the same figure eight times on one sheet suggests a design meant to be cut apart and used as decorative labels or stickers, a common form for printed ephemera of that period. The pairing of a fairy with a religious-sounding category is a reminder of how often Victorian and Edwardian imagery blended nature, folklore and sentiment.
| Original scan | 600 × 800 px |
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| Reference | Bird's Foot Trefoil Fairy Labels |
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