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Frontispiece: Why has your tree no flowers while ours are pink?The Sun’s Babies (1910)

The sun shone brightly, the air was clear and warm, and the apple fairies came up from their workrooms for their spring dance on the young clover-leaves. “But where is our little sister?” they asked. [...]

Keywords: fairies, wings, gnomes, mythological creatures, illustrations for children, trees, colour

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Added: 2022-05-25

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When She Saw Tinyboy she hid her face shyly in her curlsThe Sun’s Babies (1910)

“Let us see if anyone is at home here,” said the Butterfly, stopping at a large pink rose. “Come out, Rose-lady!” she called, and out came the prettiest little lady you ever saw. She was dressed in so [...]

Keywords: fairies, wings, mythological creatures, illustrations for children, trees, colour

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Added: 2022-05-25

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RufflecumtuffleDoings of the Bodley Family in Town and Country (1876)

THE FOUR QUEER ELVES Rufflecumtuffle and Floppytyfly, Bibbetybobble and Kickitteygo,   Were four queer elves   Who lived by themselves   On a mountain high, And scorned the fairies thta dwelt below [...]

Keywords: fairies, pagan, bare feet, beards, elves, mythical creatures, illustrations for children, carts, transport, humour, greyscale

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Added: 2012-11-25

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Ichabod Crane’s GoblineChild Classics of Prose (1893)

A pale-skinned winged goblin wih long spindly legs and arms and a cane over its shoulder at the end of which is a glowing object, perhapsa lantern. In the distant background is a black-caped person pe [...]

Keywords: goblines, supernatural, occult, mythical creatures, illustrations for children, wings, fairies, colour

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Added: 2018-07-14

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Bibbety-BobbleDoings of the Bodley Family in Town and Country (1876)

The fairy folk and the wee elves dance in a circle. Then it was that each elvish man Felt such a lightness in his feet, That, snatching the hand of the nearest fay, Round they whisked in th e wildest [...]

Keywords: fairies, pagan, dancing, bare feet, elves, mythical creatures, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2012-11-22

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A tiny woodland fairy with wingsJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

This small fey woodcut (around two inches, or 50mm, tall) shows a naked winged beaded man in a tree, or perhaps in some tiny patch of mushrooms.

Keywords: fairies, imaginary creatures, men, people, wings, nudity, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2022-05-17

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The Rain FairyThe Sun’s Babies (1910)

“She went to the Afternoon Clouds and asked them to play with her.” “We are far too busy,” said the Afternoon Clouds. “We have to shade two hills and a valley from the heat of the Sun, and make a crow [...]

Keywords: fairies, wings, mythological creatures, mountains, rainbows, aillustrations for children, bare feet, colour

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Added: 2022-05-25

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Puck and the FairiesThe Works of Shakspere, with notes by Charles Knight (1873)

R. Dadd Pinxt., W. M. Lizars Sculpt.: Puck and the Fairies (Midsummer Night’s Dream) Puck here is depicted as a naked baby sitting raised up on a toadstool while all around the creatures of the forest [...]

Keywords: shakespare, puck, midsummer nights dream, cherubs, nudity, fairies, bare feet, infants, babies, spooky, greyscale

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Added: 2004-07-19

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Little Wee MenA Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

The fairy folk climbing a hill made of clouds, and, beneath them, a fairy castle.

Keywords: colour, fairies, people, castles, fantasy, illustrations for children

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Added: 2007-08-05

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The Siren of the WildseaLegends of the Black Forest (1890)

Die Nixe des Wildsee’s The fairy is playing her harp, sitting in the form of an almost-nakd woman; a doe (a female deer) nestles beside her. But a snake crosses her foot, showing her sinister side. T [...]

Keywords: people, forests, trees, nudity, animals, mythical creatures, fairies, colour

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Added: 2009-11-24

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There Sleeps TitaniaThe Works of Shakspere, with notes by Charles Knight (1873)

“From the Midsummer Night’s Dream. R. Huskisson. Pinx. Fred Heath. Sculp. The engraving shows Titania as a nearly-naked woman with a tiara of pearls, surrounded by her female maids-in-waiting. In the [...]

Keywords: shakespeare, midsummer nights dream, people, fairies, cherubs, nudity, forests, bare feet, snails, soldiers, royalty, spooky, dreams, titania, greyscale

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Added: 2009-10-22

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There Sleeps Titania (detail without the frame)The Works of Shakspere, with notes by Charles Knight (1873)

This is the central image from There Sleeps Titania, with the architectural arch removed. There is also a magnified detail so you can see more clearly the fabulous technique of one of the greatest eng [...]

Keywords: shakespeare, titania, midsummer nights dream, people, fairies, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, forests, snails, soldiers, royalty, spooky, frames, colour

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Queen MabA Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

Queen Mab is a fairy with butterfly wings who brings dreams to people. She was described by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. I also made a version of Queen Mab with no words, and I also coloured in t [...]

Keywords: fairies, people, illustrations for children, fantasy, mythical creatures, greyscale

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Queen Mab (version without the words)A Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

Queen Mab is a fairy with butterfly wings who brings dreams to people. She was described by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet This is a version of Queen Mab with the writing removed, so you can use mor [...]

Keywords: fairies, people, illustrations for children, fantasy, spirit, mythical creatures, greyscale

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Queen MabContributed Images (2004)

A version of Queen Mab from Edgar’s Treasury of Verse, coloured by Liam Quin. You can use this as a stock image as long as you link back here and also send me a copy (or URL) of anything you do with i [...]

Keywords: backgrounds, wallpaper, colour, fairies, gallery

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Added: 2007-09-06

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To the home of Fairy AThe Book of Knowledge Volume 1 (1911)

Insde a faincy border a winged female fairy stands with arms raised to shoulder-height; she wears dainty shoes and black tights and had butterfly wings. She’s pointing to her left and our right. This [...]

Keywords: fairies, people, women, mythical creatures, wings, borders, greyscale

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Added: 2018-07-05

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To the Home of Fairy BThe Book of Knowledge Volume 1 (1911)

Insde a faincy border a female fairy, or a girl, stands with arms outstretches to the edgets of her tutu or ballet dress; she wears white tights or stockings without shoes and she has long loose-flowi [...]

Keywords: fairies, children, dresses, mythical creaturesfairies, socks, people, greyscale

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Added: 2018-07-05

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PersinaJugend [German art magazine] (1903)

A naked woman stands in a pond, her hands behind her head adjusting her long flowing hair, which reaches almost to her knees and covers her crotch modestly. There are yellow flowers, and she stands at [...]

Keywords: people, women, nudity, hair, water, mythological creatures, fairies, colour

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Added: 2018-12-04

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ArielThe Works of Shakspere, with notes by Charles Knight (1873)

C. W. SHARPE, SCULPT.; H J. TOWNSEND, PINXT. Ariel, the spirit of wind, is bound to serve Prospero, in Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest,” and is here drawn as a miniature naked winged boy lying on the [...]

Keywords: shakespeare, the tempets, as you like it, ariel, nudity, cherubs, bare feet, fairies, spooky, colour

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Added: 2004-07-19

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Boy Fairy Resting on a FlowerAtalanta Magazine (1888)

An end-of-chapter tailpiece showing a small nude boy laying on a sunflower, and holding a daisy in one hand; his feet rest on another daisy. I think he is meant to be a flower fairy, although he does [...]

Keywords: fairies, cherubs, illustrations for children, people, mythical creatures, children, nudity, bare feet, relaxing, warmth, summer, greyscale

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Added: 2011-01-13

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