Fairies Collection (page 8)

Goblins on a lily pad on a Christmas and New Year card
Goblins having fun on a lily pad on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Fairy with a shell-shaped car on an Easter postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Cupid and fairy with hearts on a New Year postcard
Cupid and fairy with red hearts and pink roses on a New Year postcard. circa 1890s

Cupid and fairy on a Valentine postcard
Cupid and fairy with red hearts and pink roses on a Valentine postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Cupid and fairy with red hearts on a Valentine postcard
Cupid and fairy with red hearts growing on a tree on a Valentine postcard -- Of my Love, the Angels in Heaven might tell. Date: circa 1890s

All Moonshine, by Dorothy Wheeler
All Moonshine, While we sleep theres a whisper in the trees, by Dorothy Wheeler. 1925

Fairy Dreams by Hilda T Miller. 20th century

Fairies of the Garden - The Orchid. 1903

Fairies of the Garden - The Daffodil. 1903

Lepidoptera Dance
Country dancing of anthropomorphised lepidoptera Date: circa 1840

Wind Elves teasing a child
Wind Elves tease a child by blowing the blackberries out of her reach. Date: 1917

Uncle Lubins Dream, illustration by William Heath Robinson
Uncle Lubins Dream, from The Adventures of Uncle Lubin (1902), illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

Oberon and Titania - Silhouette by the brilliant German cutter Paul Konewka. Date: circa 1860s

A fairy travels through the air on a bird
A fairy takes the reigns of a bird, flying through the air with the greatest of ease. c. 1920

Fairy tea party

FAIRY FOLK
Fairy folk by an old gnarled tree

The Fairy Wife
Andrew King and the Fairy Wife - illustration to a story by Maurice Hewlett

The Enchanted Hour from the picture by H. Winslade
A night-time scene filled with fairies

The Char-A-Banc. By A. E. Bestall
A fantasy scene showing two fairies hiding beside a waterfall. They cower from the humans looking from real world above. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986)

Fairy collects berries in the evening light
A fairy clad in greens, collects dark berries in a sack. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Fairy Tears
A fairy sheds tears while pleading with the North wind to allow her to return home. The tears grow into snowdrop flowers

Fairy Musicians 1920
Demi-silked, dark haired musicians

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Scylla, a beautiful water nymph, is beloved by Glaucus, but a jealous rival, Circe, will turn her into a monster with six heads, each with three rows of teeth

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Children should be warned not to accept rides from strange magic horses - these unhappy kids are riding, alas, to a home neath the waves whence they are unlikely to return

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Water nymphs are the companions of Neptune (Poseidon) and frolic around him as he rides his chariot through the waves

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Idle Inny and the Dwarf - an Irish variant on the German tale of Rumpelstiltskin

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Many dwarfs work underground, often in the mining industry, notably in the Harz mountains of Germany : but they generally come up at nights. as in the story of Snow-White

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Fairy dance - three very conventional fairies perform a simple pas de trois with the moon as spotlight

Fairy on a Rose
A fairy on a rose

Fairy Holds Grasses
A fairy supports herself on a stem by holding onto grasses

The Fairy Coquette - with three wolves which she has just transformed into lambs

Old Fairies Dancing
Fairies dancing - a reminder that not ALL fairies are young and dishy !

Christmas / Cards
A very early Christmas card, featuring fairies

Folklore / Fairies / Goble
Fairies in a mountain landscape

Fairy on Twig
A fairy sits lightly on the twig of a flower

Fifinella: A Fairy Frolic by Basil Dean and Barry Jackson. First produced at the Repertory Theatre, Birmingham, on 26th December 1912

The Torch of Night
A woman flies through the air carrying a torch to light her way in the darkness. 1899

Will-o -the-Wisp
A woman in a diaphanous dress flies through the air holding a light to illuminate her way in the darkness. 1899

A Fairy Serenade - Fairy Troubadour atop a mushroom
A Fairy Serenade - A Fairy Troubadour atop a mushroom belting out some love songs for his girl... Date: 1920s

Greetings card, Best Wishes, fairy with lantern and flowers. circa 1905

The Cloth of the World, Horrockses, Crewdson & Co Ltd, Preston, Lancashire, an outline of the history of the company, dating back to the 18th century -- trade design. 1920

The Cotton Fairies -- trade design. 1920

The First Born by Mary Y. Hunter. A new Mother tenderly cradles her infant son whilst a small girl fairy whispers words of advise (or comfort?). Date: 1912

Fairies playing games
Fairyland scene depicting fairies riding on leaves blown along by the wind. Date: 1917

The fairies market
Fairyland scene depicting a fairies market stall. Date: 1917

Fairy riding a bicycle on a greetings postcard
Fairy riding a bicycle decorated with flowers on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Fairy, buttercup and bee -- Do you love butter? Date: early 20th century

Gorse and Fern To Keep the Fairies Out, a May Eve Custom - a view of children outside a thatched cottage, one of whom is hanging a fern above the door of the cottage. (Location: Ireland)

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