Fairy painting is a genre of painting and illustration featuring fairies and fairy tale settings, often with extreme attention to detail, seen as escapism for Victorians. The genre is most closely ass
Titania and Bottom. Oil on canvas by Henry Fuseli, c. 1790
A portrait of a fairy, by Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1869). The title of the painting is Take the Fair Face of Woman, and Gently Suspending, With Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending, Thus Your Fairy is Made of Most Beautiful Things – from a verse by Charles Ede.
The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke. Oil on canvas by Richard Dadd 1855–1864.
The Captive Robin by John Anster Fitzgerald, c.1864
A fairy is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphic, found in the folklore of multiple European cultures, a form of spirit, often with magical, metaphysic
Title page of a 1603 reprinting of Daemonologie
Illustration of a fairy by C. E. Brock
A resin statue of a fairy