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The Fairy Queen Takes an Airy Drive in a Light Carriage, a Twelve-in-hand, drawn by Thoroughbred Butterflies
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The Fairy Queen Takes an Airy Drive in a Light Carriage, a Twelve-in-hand, drawn by Thoroughbred Butterflies

Richard Doyle | Edmund Evans | Longman, Green, Reader and Dyer

1870

Medium

Color wood engraving and color lithograph

Tags

FairiesButterfliesLandscapes

Dimensions

Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 13/16 in. (27.2 × 37.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1970

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Richard Doyle

1824–1883 • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

British, London 1824–1883 London

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