Fairy riding a deer through a misty forest – Antique Print
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Description
This rare historic image captures Fairy riding a deer through a misty forest in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Fairy riding a deer through a misty forest
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Riding a deer through a misty forest, this fairy belongs to a long tradition of imagined woodland spirits that artists returned to again and again in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Fairy painting became especially popular in Britain, where illustrators and painters drew on folklore, fairy tales and Shakespeare's *A Midsummer Night's Dream* to present the otherworld as delicate, luminous and slightly out of reach. Pairing a fairy with a deer, an animal long linked to forests and wild, untamed places, lets the scene suggest a world that exists just beyond ordinary sight. The gallery groups such works under angels and fairies, a reminder of how often Victorian-era imagery blurred the line between the sacred and the supernatural.
| Original scan | 1,200 × 900 px · prints to 4 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Fantasy Fairies071 |
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