The illustrations of Cicely Mary Barker have delighted readers of all ages for more than a hundred years. Her perfect matching of each fairy to a flower suggests a poetic truth to their existence. The illustration reproduced here, from Barker’s Fairies of the Wayside collection, is known as The White Bindweed Fairy.
The illustrations of Cicely Mary Barker have delighted readers of all ages for nearly a hundred years. Her perfect matching of each fairy to a flower suggests a poetic truth to their existence. The illustration reproduced here, from Barker’s Fairies of the Wayside collection, is known as The White Bindweed Fairy.
