Fairies and elves by blue mushrooms, with the Season's Greetings – Vintage Wall Art
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This historic image of Fairies and elves by blue mushrooms, with the Season's Greetings 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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Fairies and elves by blue mushrooms, with the Season's Greetings
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Blue mushrooms and a small crowd of fairies and elves make up this holiday card, whose greeting is printed right on the scene. Illustrations like this were popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when artists such as Ida Rentoul Outhwaite and Cicely Mary Barker, along with many commercial designers, drew tiny winged figures in woodland settings for seasonal cards and books. The mix of folklore and festive wishes reflects how fairy imagery had moved from folk belief into the sentimental Christmas and New Year cards that filled Victorian and Edwardian mailboxes. Note how the artist uses the strange blue fungi as a backdrop to give the fairies a sense of enchanted scale.
| Original scan | 953 × 619 px |
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| Reference | Fairies & Elves (14) |
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