Victorian fairy minded bug and flower art. Possibly the best kind, at least I think so. Very pretty drawings taken from Clara Dillingham Pierson’s 1897 book “Among the Meadow People” which was illustrated by F. C. Gordon and published in New York by E. P. Dutton.

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Title page (detail) I think they are grasshoppers. Image 3 from Clara Dillingham Pierson’s 1897 book Among the Meadow People. F. C. Gordon, illustrator. E. P. Dutton, New York publishers. Collections of the  Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/amongmeadowpeopl00pi/page/n2/mode/1up
The Butterfly who went Calling. Page 7 from Clara Dillingham Pierson’s 1897 book Among the Meadow People. F. C. Gordon, illustrator. E. P. Dutton, New York publishers. Collections of the  Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/amongmeadowpeopl00pi/page/7/mode/1up
The Lazy Snail. Page 16 from Clara Dillingham Pierson’s 1897 book Among the Meadow People. F. C. Gordon, illustrator. E. P. Dutton, New York publishers. Collections of the  Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/amongmeadowpeopl00pi/page/16/mode/1up
The Little Spider’s First Web. Page 26 from Clara Dillingham Pierson’s 1897 book Among the Meadow People. F. C. Gordon, illustrator. E. P. Dutton, New York publishers. Collections of the  Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/amongmeadowpeopl00pi/page/25/mode/1up
The Cricket’s School. Page 38 from Clara Dillingham Pierson’s 1897 book Among the Meadow People. F. C. Gordon, illustrator. E. P. Dutton, New York publishers. Collections of the  Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/amongmeadowpeopl00pi/page/38/mode/1up
A Puzzled Cicada. Page 55 from Clara Dillingham Pierson’s 1897 book Among the Meadow People. F. C. Gordon, illustrator. E. P. Dutton, New York publishers. Collections of the  Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/amongmeadowpeopl00pi/page/55/mode/1up?view=theater
The Grasshopper and the Measuring Worm Run a Race. Page 69 from Clara Dillingham Pierson’s 1897 book Among the Meadow People. F. C. Gordon, illustrator. E. P. Dutton, New York publishers. Collections of the  Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/amongmeadowpeopl00pi/page/69/mode/1up?view=theater
Mr. Green Frog and his Visitors. Page 75 from Clara Dillingham Pierson’s 1897 book Among the Meadow People. F. C. Gordon, illustrator. E. P. Dutton, New York publishers. Collections of the  Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/amongmeadowpeopl00pi/page/75/mode/1up?view=theater
The Earthworm Half-Brothers. Page 95 from Clara Dillingham Pierson’s 1897 book Among the Meadow People. F. C. Gordon, illustrator. E. P. Dutton, New York publishers. Collections of the  Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/amongmeadowpeopl00pi/page/95/mode/1up?view=theater
The Frog who Thought herself Sick. Page 111 from Clara Dillingham Pierson’s 1897 book Among the Meadow People. F. C. Gordon, illustrator. E. P. Dutton, New York publishers. Collections of the  Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/amongmeadowpeopl00pi/page/111/mode/1up?view=theater
The Last Party of the Season. Page 121 from Clara Dillingham Pierson’s 1897 book Among the Meadow People. F. C. Gordon, illustrator. E. P. Dutton, New York publishers. Collections of the  Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/amongmeadowpeopl00pi/page/121/mode/1up?view=theater

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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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