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Fairy Art

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HKA-001655Literary Tradition

The Victorian Miniature Winged Fairy

The familiar image of a tiny fairy with wings became especially prominent in nineteenth-century British painting, illustrated books and theatre. The visual form proved enduring in children’s publishing. Earlier British fairy narratives vary considerably…

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HKA-001654Literary Tradition

Richard Doyle and Victorian Fairy Illustration

Richard Doyle was among the nineteenth-century British illustrators whose elaborate fairy imagery helped establish the pictorial language of small supernatural figures, flowers, woods and playful miniature worlds. Victorian fairy illustration belongs to a later…

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