3-057-187 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

'Water lilies and water fairies of the period', c1869-c1870. 'Amongst the sports and pastimes of the Little People, there was, once upon a time, a great race of all the swiftest snails in Fairyland'. An assortment of fairies, nymphs and elves ride on the shells of snails. From "In Fairy land. A series of pictures from the elf-world by Richard Doyle. With a poem by W Allingham." (London, 1869-1870).