In Fairyland 1870 - Richard Doyle (1824-1883) - 42 images

These are the pictures from In Fairyland, a series of Pictures from the Elf World, undoubtedly Richard Doyle's Masterpiece. The book featured a poem by William Allingham, was printed by Edmund Evans and published by Longman in time for Christmas 1869 (dated 1870). The folio was richly bound in green cloth and has been described as one of the finest examples of Victorian book production. The illustrations were used in the publication of another book as well, The Princess Nobody by Andrew Lang (1884).

This download features 42 hi-res images, in jpeg format, that are all 600dpi and range in size from 2340 pixels wide/tall to 9256 pixels wide/tall.

The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.

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