The Butterfly Fairy – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: The Butterfly Fairy, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful 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.
The Butterfly Fairy
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Butterfly wings give this fairy her most distinctive feature, tying her to an old tradition in which the insect stood for the soul and for transformation. Winged fairies became especially popular in the nineteenth century, when they appeared in book illustrations, stage productions, and fine art, often drawn with the careful detail of natural history studies. Within the Angels and Fairies group, the piece belongs to a body of work that treats the supernatural as gentle and decorative rather than frightening. Worth noticing is how the butterfly lets the artist fuse the human figure with the natural world into a single form.
| Original scan | 628 × 1,000 px |
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| Reference | Fantasy Fairies064 |
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