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Véritable extrait de viande Liebig : Volubilis / Liebig's Company.

Two cherubim (?) in a garden pointing to the sky from where an angel looks down on the busy gardeners. Etching by J. Miller after himself.

Three fairies in a garden looking at the plants; representing botany. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman after R. Corbould.

Véritable extrait de viande Liebig : Eglantier / Liebig's Company.

A faun surrounded by fairies. Engraving by F. Bacon, 1840, after D. Maclise.

A crowned fairy king seated on a hedgehog drawn by a girl holding a giant daisy, accompanied by dancing fairies. Watercolour by C.A. Doyle.

1 print : etching ; platemark 19.6 x 12 cm

Bibliothèque de Carabas

A philological essay concerning the pygmies of the ancients / by Edward Tyson ; now edited, with an introduction treating of pygmy races and fairy tales, by Bertram C.A. Windle.

<p>Falstaff is dressed as Herne the Hunter, the ghost of a former Windsor Forest ranger. A man standing by a tree holding a torch and wearing the mask of a satyr may be Sir Hugh Evans, a character in the play. On the right a man and a woman steal away in the darkness: they may be Fenton and Anne Page, who get married</p>

1 print : etching ; platemark 49.2 x 62.4 cm

An episode in The merry wives of Windsor: Sir John Falstaff is invited to a tryst in Windsor Forest at night, dressed in bizarre clothing: he is attacked by children dressed as fairies and by the merry wives. Stipple engraving by I. Taylor, 1795, after R. Smirke.

<p>A basket of fruit lies spilled on the left. On the right, an opened fruit displays its seeds</p>

1 print : stipple engraving ; image 22.4 x 17.1 cm

1 drawing : watercolour ; image 30 x 24.5 cm

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Two cherubim (?) in a garden pointing to the sky from where an angel looks down on the busy gardeners. Etching by J. Miller after himself.

A philological essay concerning the pygmies of the ancients / by Edward Tyson ; now edited, with an introduction treating of pygmy races and fairy tales, by Bertram C.A. Windle.

An episode in The merry wives of Windsor: Sir John Falstaff is invited to a tryst in Windsor Forest at night, dressed in bizarre clothing: he is attacked by children dressed as fairies and by the merry wives. Stipple engraving by I. Taylor, 1795, after R. Smirke.

Three fairies in a garden looking at the plants; representing botany. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman after R. Corbould.

A crowned fairy king seated on a hedgehog drawn by a girl holding a giant daisy, accompanied by dancing fairies. Watercolour by C.A. Doyle.

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Fairies

Images

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Two cherubim (?) in a garden pointing to the sky from where an angel looks down on the busy gardeners. Etching by J. Miller after himself.

A philological essay concerning the pygmies of the ancients / by Edward Tyson ; now edited, with an introduction treating of pygmy races and fairy tales, by Bertram C.A. Windle.

An episode in The merry wives of Windsor: Sir John Falstaff is invited to a tryst in Windsor Forest at night, dressed in bizarre clothing: he is attacked by children dressed as fairies and by the merry wives. Stipple engraving by I. Taylor, 1795, after R. Smirke.

Three fairies in a garden looking at the plants; representing botany. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman after R. Corbould.

A crowned fairy king seated on a hedgehog drawn by a girl holding a giant daisy, accompanied by dancing fairies. Watercolour by C.A. Doyle.

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