April 12, 2024
Flower Fairies: LORDS-AND-LADIES FAIRY Vintage Print c.1930 Cicely Mary Barker
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The Lords-and-Ladies Fairy by Cicily Mary Barker This auction is for a genuine, original vintage print rescued from a disbound copy of the Flower Fairies of the Autumn Date Published: Printed between 1928 and 1940 by Blackie & Son Ltd in Great Britain The lithograph has a characteristic patina which is natural for antique paper but is in very good condition considering it's age. Print size: 4 inches x 5 1/2 inches Image size: 3 inches x 4 1/4 inches Multiple Item Shipping Discount: I will combine any number of prints in one package and charge only one posting fee! ********** Cicely Mary Barker was born in 1895 in Croydon, South London, and spent most of her life there. Because of ill-health she was educated at home and largely taught herself to draw and paint, encouraged by a supportive family and assisted by membership of the Croydon Art Society. She was only sixteen when she had her first work accepted for publication as a set of postcards, and from that time she devoted her career to painting. It was her Flower Fairies books that brought Cicely Mary Barker her greatest popular acclaim. Like the pre-Raphaelite painters whom she so much admired, she believed in recreating the beauty of nature in art and in drawing from life. Her plants and flowers were observed with complete botanical accuracy and in the fairies themselves,
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