Cicely Mary M. Barker, Blackie & Sons Poster With 25 Fairies by Rainbow, England

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Cicely Mary Barker Poster With 25 Fairies
by Rainbow Designs, Printed in England
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Genuine
100% Authentic Cicely M Barker
by Kind Permission of Blackie & Son
Rainbow Designs
Printed in England
Condition
Good Condition
1" Tear Bottom Right Corner, Taped
(see Pictures)
Overall Size
25" x 18"
Fairies Included
The Blackberry Fairy
The Sweet Pea Fairy
The Box Tree Fairy
The Heliotrope Fairy
The Mulberry Fairy
The Yarrow Fairy
The Lilac Fairy
The Poppy Fairy
The Wild Rose Fairy
The Pear Blossom Fairy
The Rose Hip Fairy
The Blackthorne Fairy
The Rose Fairy
The Crab-Apple Fairy
The Self-Heal or Prunella Fairy
The Harebell Fairy
The Willow Fairy
The Michaelmas Fairy
The Snapdragon Fairy
The Storks Bill Fairy
The Wild Clover Fairy
The Cherry Tree Fairy
The Poplar Fairy
The Wild Cherry Blossom Fairy
The Wayfaring Tree Fairy
About Cicely Mary Barker
Cicely Mary Barker (28 June 1895 – 16 February 1973) was an English illustrator best known for a series of fantasy illustrations depicting fairies and flowers. Barker's art education began in girlhood with correspondence courses and instruction at the Croydon School of Art. Her earliest professional work included greeting cards and juvenile magazine illustrations, and her first book, Flower Fairies of the Spring, was published in 1923. Similar books were published in the following decades.
Barker was a devout Anglican, and donated her artworks to Christian fundraisers and missionary organizations. She produced a few Christian-themed books such as The Children’s Book of Hymns and, in collaboration with her sister Dorothy, He Leadeth Me. She designed a stained glass window for St. Edmund's Church, Pitlake, and her painting of the Christ Child, The Darling of the World Has Come, was purchased by Queen Mary.
Barker was equally proficient in watercolour, pen and ink, oils, and pastels. Kate Greenaway and the Pre-Raphaelites were the principal influences on her work. She claimed to paint instinctively and rejected artistic theories. Barker died in 1973. Though she published Flower Fairy books with spring, summer, and autumn themes, it wasn't until 1985 that a winter collection was assembled from her remaining work and published posthumously.
About Blackie & Son
Blackie and Son was a publishing house in Glasgow, Scotland and London, England from 1890 to 1991.
The firm was founded in 1809 by John Blackie (1782-1874) as a partnership with two others and was known as 'Blackie, Fullarton and Company'. It began printing in 1819 and was renamed 'Blackie and Son' in 1831, becoming a public limited company in 1890. The business had premises at 16/18 William IV Street, Charing Cross, London, 17 Stanhope Street in Glasgow and 5 South College Street in Edinburgh. The company also opened offices in Canada and India. It ceased publishing in 1991.
Blackie and Son initially published books sold by subscription, including religious texts and reference books. Later the firm published single volumes, particularly educational texts and children's books, taking advantage of compulsory education from 1870.
Notable books from The Kennett Library, a graded series of classics retold for schools, include: Kidnapped, Little Women, Westward Ho!, The Black Arrow, Wuthering Heights and Ben-Hur. The firm published the many Flower Fairy books of Cicely Mary Barker beginning in 1923.
In 1902, Walter Blackie commissioned Hill House on a plot in Helensburgh to the West of Glasgow. At the invitation of their illustrator Talwin Morris, the architect was his friend Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The house is regarded as one of Mackintosh's finest works.
About Fairies
Fairies are generally described as human in appearance and having magical powers. Diminutive fairies of one kind or another have been recorded for centuries, but occur alongside the human-sized beings; these have been depicted as ranging in size from very tiny up to the size of a human child. Even with these small fairies, however, their small size may be magically assumed rather than constant. Some fairies though normally quite small were able to dilate their figures to imitate humans. On Orkney they were described as short in stature, dressed in dark grey, and sometimes seen in armour.
Wings, while common in Victorian and later artwork of fairies, are very rare in the folklore; even very small fairies flew with magic, sometimes flying on ragwort stems or the backs of birds. Nowadays, fairies are often depicted with ordinary insect wings or butterfly wings. In some folklore, fairies have green eyes. Some depictions of fairies either have them wearing some sort of footwear and other depictions of fairies are always barefoot.
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