The Forget-Me-Not Fairy – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with The Forget-Me-Not Fairy, a historic image rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Order it framed and ready to hang, or unframed to match a frame you already love. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
The Forget-Me-Not Fairy
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The Forget-Me-Not Fairy takes its name from the small blue flower whose name, in English and German, comes from a legend of a knight who fell into a river while picking one for his lady and called out to be remembered. The flower became a common emblem of remembrance in the 19th century, when the language of flowers was popular and sentimental fairy pictures were widely printed. Images like this one drew on that tradition, mixing folk belief about fairies with the period's taste for botanical detail and gentle moral sentiment. Look at how the figure and the blossoms are arranged, since that is where the picture's message about memory is usually carried.
| Original scan | 2,172 × 1,516 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Forget-Me-Not Baby Fairy Card Toppers |
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