Frederic Remington
A Reconnaissance, 1902
Oil on canvas
Height: 69.22 cm (27.25 in.), Width: 101.92 cm (40.13 in.)
We have fed our sea for a thousand years.
William Heath Robinson, from A song of the English, by Rudyard Kipling, New York, 1909.
(Source: archive.org)
Victorian fairy painting
‘Fairy painting, particularly when produced in its Golden Age, between 1840 and 1870, is a peculiarly British contribution to the development of Romanticism. […] As modern industrial progress engulfed the English countryside, the Victorians embraced belief in fairies as a reaction to the disenchantment of the world […] Fairy painting is the visual evidence of a spectrum of mid-19th-century preoccupations: nationalism, antiquarianism, exploration, anthropology, the dismantling of religious belief and, crucially, the emergence of spiritualism.’
Jeremy Maas and others, Victorian Fairy Painting, exhib. catalogue (Royal Academy of Arts: Merrell Holberton, London, 1998).
John Anster Fitzgerald (1823-1906), The Fairy’s Barque, 1860.
John Anster Fitzgerald, Fairy Hordes Attacking a Bat, date unknown.
Richard Dadd (1817-1886), Titania Sleeping, 1841.
Joseph Noel Paton (1821-1901), The Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania, 1847.
Edwin Landseer (1802-1873), Scene from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, Titania and Bottom, 1848-51.
Richard Doyle (1824-1883), ‘The Triumphal March of the Elf King’, from In Fairyland, or Pictures from the Elf World, 1869.
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