Fairy seated on a daisy beside a lute-playing elf – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of Fairy seated on a daisy beside a lute-playing elf. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Fairy seated on a daisy beside a lute-playing elf
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A fairy sits perched on a daisy, with an elf beside her playing a lute, so the flower becomes a small stage for music. Images like this belong to the nineteenth-century tradition of fairy painting, when artists and illustrators filled children's books, annuals and fine prints with tiny winged figures living among blossoms and insects. Flower fairies of this kind were usually shown in playful, intimate scenes rather than as the menacing beings of older folklore, reflecting a taste for nature as a source of innocence and wonder. The small scale of the figures rewards close looking.
| Original scan | 587 × 1,011 px |
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| Reference | Fairies & Elves (24) |
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