Sprites Collection

Fairy Revels
Enchanting illustration showing fairies dancing in a ring underneath a toadstool while pixies, elves and sprites watch and hold lamps. c.1925

Whither Away by Florence Mary Anderson
A group of delicate looking fairies and pixies ride around on dragonflies and bees. c.1925

Fairies by Hilda Miller
Whimsical illustration showing a group of fairies of assorted colours dancing across the grass

A Sail in the Moon Boat by Florence Mary Anderson
Illustration showing two children and a baby going for a ride on a crescent shaped moon surrounded by pixies and fairies. c.1920

Fairy Flowers by Florence Mary Anderson
" Fairy Flowers by Florence Mary Anderson. " Admire me. See how gorgeous I am", from The Secret of the Flowers by Edith M Coker." 1919

Magician Carl Devo
Undated colour illustrated poster for magician Carl Devo, featuring full length illustration of Devo surrounded by magical objects, printed by Weiners Limited, London. HPF/5B/5

Puck (Fuseli)
Puck, a sprite (in Shakespeares Midsummer nights dream)

The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Act V, scene I. Prospero: You demi-puppets that by moonshine do the green sour ringlets make. Illustration by Edmund Dulac. Date: 1908

The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Act V, scene I. Prospero: And ye that on the sands with printless foot do chase the ebbing Neptune. Illustration by Edmund Dulac. Date: 1908

The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Act V, scene I. Prospero: Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves. Illustration by Edmund Dulac. Date: 1908

The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Act IV, scene I. Enter certain Reapers, properly habited: they join with the Nymphs in a graceful dance. Illustration by Edmund Dulac. Date: 1908

The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Act IV, scene I. Iris: You Nymphs, call'd Naiads, of the windring brooks, leave your crisp channels. Illustration by Edmund Dulac. Date: 1908

The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Act III, scene II. Caliban: Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Illustration by Edmund Dulac. Date: 1908

The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Act II, scene II. Caliban: But for every trifle are they set upon me. Illustration by Edmund Dulac. Date: 1908

The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Act II, scene I. Ariel as an invisible spirit. Illustration by Edmund Dulac. Date: 1908

Fairies from every Flower
Two children sit in a garden, surrounded by flowers and their associated fairies. c.1925

Postcard design artwork - Schoolgirl led by hand by a sprite
Postcard design artwork - A Schoolgirl led by hand by a sprite. Date: circa 1937

Wind Sprites by Lorna Steele

NYMPHS OVER STREAM
One of the knights of the Round Table sees these creatures above a stream - are they nymphs, sprites, fairies or sirens ?

KNIGHT & SPRITES KNIGHT & SPRITES
One of the Knights of the Round Table sees fairies as he rides through the forest

The Fairies Song - A Midsummers Nights Dream - Act II, scene 2 - Titania asleep, surrounded by her fairy train

The Magic Mirror
A group of fairies and pixies fly through the air holding a magical mirror

Fairy Time - A seated fairy blows a dandelion head
Fairy Time - A seated fairy queen blowing the seeds off a dandelion seed head, whilst two sprites rest nearby under two toadstools Date: 1939

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach silhouette from Divine Youth series
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach silhouette from the Divine Youth series - a weightlifter. Date: 1911

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

Music cover, Sprites by Night, Danse Fantastique by Joseph Fredericks. circa 1890s

Christmas Fairies
A Christmas verse, written by Marion St. John Webb illustrated by Alice H. Watson. Date: 1928

The Snow Lady by Mina Greenhill
A lady dressed in medieval costume standing in the snow surrounded by fairies and sprites. Date: 1920

The Fairy Pageant, Bonzos Annual, 1935 Date: 1935

Two sprites playing a violin and a flute
A butterfly dances to the music played by two sprites playing a violin and a flute

Christmas sprites
Six little Christmas sprites peer over a wall, smiling cheekily

Night before Christmas
Title page to " The Night Before Christmas" by Clement C Moore, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, featuring elves cavorting across the page with holly and mistletoe. Date: First published: 1823

The Nymphs by Hookway Cowles
The Nymphs An Illustration by Hookway Cowles depicts 5 women in thin revealing clothing, nearly naked in appearance, prancing through the forest with the sunlight trying to penetrate the Undergrowth

Puck as Will O the Wisp
Puck, a sprite, mischievously leads travellers astray as a will o the wisp, luring the unwary into marshy pools

Illustration entitled Lanterne Magique
Illustration entitled " Lanterne Magique" showing many silhouetted images of magic by Michel Delaporte, 1832. HPF/5C/0"

What the Angler Saw by A. K. Macdonald
An angler, coming to fish at a salmon pool at dawn is astonished to see a group of lithe and naked nymphs cavorting above the water to a tune played on pipes by Pan

Toby Xmas Number 1922
Front cover illustration for Toby childrens magazine or comic, featuring Father Christmas driving through snow on a motobike

The Moths and the Flame
Fantasy illustration by Edmund Blampied, showing winged fairies or sprites flying towards a flame in human form

Robin Good-Fellow
Robin Good-fellow

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