Love's Message: winged fairies with morning glory flowers – Antique Wall Art
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Description
This rare historic image captures Love's Message: winged fairies with morning glory flowers in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Love's Message: winged fairies with morning glory flowers
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Winged fairies paired with morning glory blossoms set this picture apart from the angel images around it, and the flowers seem to carry the sentiment named in the title, "Love's Message." Sentimental prints like this were popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when greeting cards and decorative pictures used winged figures to express affection between friends and lovers. Victorian readers often treated flowers as coded language, and the morning glory, which opens at dawn and fades by midday, was generally taken to suggest a brief or fleeting attachment. The blend of religious-style wings with a playful, domestic tone is worth noticing.
| Original scan | 634 × 988 px |
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| Reference | Fairies & Elves (50) |
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