Elf child carrying a tray of forget-me-nots and violets – Vintage Print
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Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of Elf child carrying a tray of forget-me-nots and violets. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Elf child carrying a tray of forget-me-nots and violets
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Little is recorded about the specific maker of this picture, but its subject sits squarely within a popular strand of late nineteenth and early twentieth century illustration, when artists increasingly drew on folklore and nature imagery for greeting cards, book plates and decorative prints. A child-sized elf balancing a tray of forget-me-nots and violets brings together two flowers long associated with remembrance and modesty in the language of flowers, a Victorian code that assigned meanings to blossoms. The pairing of a fairy figure with small wildflowers reflects the era's taste for sentimental, storybook charm, and it is worth noticing how the artist uses the tray and the blooms to give the figure a gentle, offering gesture.
| Original scan | 668 × 919 px |
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| Reference | Fairies & Elves (73) |
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