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| Antique print - Lovely Fairies, Caterpillars and Wild Rose 1920 Arthur Rackham Exceptionally beautiful print and some of Arthur Rackham's best work. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's magical tale of love and fairies can have no better illustrator. From a scarce, early edition of the tale.This is a wonderful line drawing of a fairies on a bramble bush attacking the caterpillars that feed there with tiny sword and catapult - a beautiful decoration to A Midsummer Night's Dream - 'Come, now a roundel and a fairy song Then, for the third part of a minute, hence Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings To make my small elves coats, and some keep back The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep Then to your offices and let me rest. |
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