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Description:
Flower Fairies of the Autumn by Cicely Mary Barker, (1895-1973). First published in 1926. Ms. Barker was born in Croydon, South London. She spent a great deal of her life in solitary pursuits owing to her ill health. She became very proficient and skillful in depicting botanical subjects. Her Flower Fairies Books brought her international acclaim as an artist. The delicate charm of her illustrations, coupled with her meticulous botanical accuracy, has captivated both children and adults alike for nearly 70 years. 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 she captured perfectly the unselfconscious grace of children, whom she used to sketch in her sister's school. On the dust jacket of one of the early editions, she wrote " let me say quite plainly, that I have drawn all the plants and flowers very carefully, from real ones: and everything that I have said about them is as true as I could make it. But I have never seen a fairy"
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: 1595 |
| Condition:
Excellent |
Year:
1926
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| Height:
5.5 in. (13.97 cm) |
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Width: 4 in. (10.16 cm)
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| Title:
Blackberry |
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