Winged fairy hovering over a sleeping man in a forest – Vintage Wall Art
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A window into the past: Winged fairy hovering over a sleeping man in a forest, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. 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, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Winged fairy hovering over a sleeping man in a forest
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A winged fairy hovers above a sleeping man in a dense forest, a scene that draws on the long tradition of supernatural visitors appearing to dreamers in folklore and fairy painting. Images of this kind were popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when artists drew on Shakespeare's fairy world, Romantic interest in the spirit realm, and illustrated fairy-tale collections. The sleeper's stillness against the tangle of trees sets up a contrast between the human and the otherworldly, and the fairy's outstretched form suggests a message, a blessing, or a dream being delivered. Such pictures often sat somewhere between religious devotion and folk belief, which is why they hang comfortably in a board that groups angels and fairies together.
| Original scan | 1,000 × 750 px |
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| Reference | Fantasy Fairies042 |
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