In Fairyland - The Fairy of the Flowers

Richard Doyle’s* masterpiece In Fairyland was published in 1870.

His watercolours, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, present a world of little people - a Fairyland resplendent with King and Queen, a handsome prince and the fairest of all princesses. The many humble souls are represented by elves, goblins, kobolds, trolls, nymphs, sprites and those mischievous little folks, the nixies and pixies.

The Victorian greeting cards and scraps that follow are dated after 1870, and it seems to me, may have been inspired by “Dicky Doyles” brilliance and fantastic imagination as embodied in that exquisite book - In Fairyland.

* Richard Doyle (1824-1883) was the son of an Irish artist and the uncle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Born in London he was instructed by his father from an early age, in drawing and design. By the time he was nineteen, he had become a designer of such skill and originality that the famous cover of Punch was choosen from his work.

Albums & Scraps	Victorian Albums Victorian Scraps Father Tuck's Complete Picture Maker
Saint Valentines Day	Lace-Paper Valentines Comic Valentines
Easter & Fairyland	Easter Frolics In Fairyland
Christmas & New Year	A Victorian Christmas A Christmas Menagerie
Printed Ephemera	The Calendar Reward of Merit The English Lotteries
Publishers	Victorian Greeting Card Publishers