The Fairy Queen Takes an Airy Drive in a Light Carriage, a Twelve-in-hand, drawn by Thoroughbred Butterflies
Artwork Details
- Title: The Fairy Queen Takes an Airy Drive in a Light Carriage, a Twelve-in-hand, drawn by Thoroughbred Butterflies
- Series/Portfolio: In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World
- Artist: After Richard Doyle (British, London 1824–1883 London)
- Engraver: Engraved and printed in color by Edmund Evans (British, Southwark, London 1826–1905 Ventnor, Isle of Wight)
- Publisher: Longman, Green, Reader and Dyer
- Date: 1870
- Medium: Color wood engraving and color lithograph
- Dimensions: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 13/16 in. (27.2 × 37.6 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1970
- Object Number: 1970.565.74(13)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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