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  Richard Doyle Thoroughbred Butterflies Wood Engraving 1870
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RICHARD DOYLE (1824-1883) Color wood engraving, published by Edmund Evans, 1870. Image size 8 x 11.75 inches. Paper size 10.75 x 14.75 inches.

Condition: Very good overall with minor foxing, and slight edge darkening.

This is one of Doyle’s most famous images. The caption reads; The Fairy Queen takes an airy drive in a light carriage, a twelve-in-hand, drawn by thoroughbred butterflies.

Richard Doyle is well known for his book illustrations of everyday life and fairy subjects. In 1843, he joined the staff of Punch, for which he designed the famous cover in 1849. He created fairyland illustrations for many stories including
  • Ruskin's The King of the Golden River and
  • Thackeray's The Newcomes,
  • Leigh Hunt''s Pot of Honey
    • and William Allingham's In Fairyland.


    In Fairy Land, published by Longman Green and Company in 1870, must be considered Richard Doyle's masterpiece, for it reveals his secret fairy world at its most enchanting. It was a particularly enjoyable commission, for he was given a free hand by the publishers, and as a result produced some of his most imaginative pictures.

    William Allingham the poet was given the difficult task of fitting a verse framework to the plates. The book owed its success to the superb production standards set by its printer Edmund Evans, who adapted and surpassed the colour printing technique introduced by George Baxter to make it one of the masterpieces of Victorian book production. Richard Doyle was the uncle of Sherlock Holmes author, Arthur Conan Doyle.

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