Fairy reaching for a bubble among butterflies – Historic Print
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Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of Fairy reaching for a bubble among butterflies. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. 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.
Fairy reaching for a bubble among butterflies
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A fairy stretches toward a single soap bubble while butterflies drift around her, a pairing that turns a playful scene into a quiet reflection on fragility. Bubbles have long stood in art for brevity, since they shine brightly and vanish almost at once, a symbol carried over from the older vanitas tradition. Images like this were especially popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when fairy subjects filled children's books, magazines and decorative art, and artists often used them to blend close observation of insects and flowers with imaginative, dreamlike figures.
| Original scan | 614 × 967 px |
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| Reference | Fairies & Elves (42) |
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