Fairies here and fairies there on each and every wall of your drawing room. Like living inside Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s dream.” Two by Scottish fantasy artist Sir Joseph Noel Paton. One by someone else. Mid 19th century when fairy pictures were in.

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Puck and Fairies, from "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Mid 19th c. Print.
Puck and Fairies, from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” ca. 1850. Scottish. Oil on millboard. Sir Joseph Noel Paton, artist (1821-1901). Collection of the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. In the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1924. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Noel_Paton_-_Puck_and_Fairies,_from_%22A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream%22_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
"The Fairy Raid: Carrying off a Changeling - Midsummer Eve." 1867.
“The Fairy Raid: Carrying off a Changeling – Midsummer Eve.” 1867. Sir Joseph Noel Paton, artist (1821-1901). In the public domain due to age. via https://pixels.com/featured/the-fairy-raid-sir-joseph-noel-paton.html
The Midsummer Night's Fairies exhibited 1847 by Robert Huskisson ?1820-1861
“The Midsummer Night’s Fairies.” Exhibited in 1847. British. Robert Huskisson, artist (ca. 1821-1861). Collection of the Tate Gallery, London. Cc0 License 3.0. via https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/huskisson-the-midsummer-nights-fairies-t01901

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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