Fairies and a couple in a moonlit forest – Vintage Print
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Description
This rare historic image captures Fairies and a couple in a moonlit forest in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Fairies and a couple in a moonlit forest
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A couple walking through a moonlit forest, with fairies gathered around them, is the detail that sets this scene apart from the winged angels and spirits on the rest of this board. Fairies in European art became a popular subject in the 19th century, when Romantic and Victorian painters drew on folklore and on Shakespeare's *A Midsummer Night's Dream* to picture the unseen world at night. Filing such scenes under religious imagery reflects how closely supernatural beings of this kind were tied to angels in the period's visual culture. The soft lunar light and the human figures in the forest invite the viewer to consider how people of the time imagined the boundary between the natural and the magical.
| Original scan | 794 × 1,000 px |
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| Reference | Fantasy Fairies013 |
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