Mushroom Art Registry:
Victorian Fairy Paintings
Boyle, Eleanor Vere. British. 1825-1916
- — A —
- Title: Fairies sitting on two flowers or white clitocyboid mushrooms. 1872
- Medium: Illustration to Thumbkinetta (H. C. Anderson’s fairy tale)
- Location: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
- Web: ArtMagick
- — B —
- Title: But He Was Only Sunk in a Dream of Delight
- Medium: An illustration for the book The Story without an End
- Reference: Carove, Friedrich Wilhelm, Austin, Sarah. The Story without an End. Columbia, SC: Camden House. 1995
- Note: Originally published in German in 1930. Sarah Austin has translated the edition listed here, the most recent translation
- Note: Description by Elissa Rubin-Mahon
Cruikshank, George. British. 1792-1878
- — A —
- Title: A Fantasy--The Fairy Ring. Ca.1850
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Circle with raised edge of fairies?, with huge mushroom in center
- Web: Victorian Fairy Paintings
- — B —
- Title: A Fairy Dance
- Medium: Pen, ink, and watercolor, 26.8 x 42 cm.
- Location: Maas Gallery, London
- Mushroom description: Royal fairy couple seated on a large white mushroom, perhaps Agaricus
- Reference: Woods, C. Fairies in Victorian Art. Woodbridge, U.K.: Antique Coll. Club. 2000.
Dadd, Richard. British. 1817-1887
- — A —
- Title: Puck. 1841
- Medium: Oil on canvas, approximately 23 X 23 inches
- Location: Private collection
- Note: Puck sitting on a toadstool originated with Sir Joshua Reynolds, who also painted a Puck for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery
- Web: Emory University
- — B —
- Title: Titania asleep
- Location: The Louvre, Paris
- Web: Joconde website (click “champignon”)
Danby, Francis. British. 1793-1861
- Title: Scene From a Midsummer Night's Dream. 1832.
- Medium: Watercolor, 19.7 x 29.0 cm.
- Location: Oldham Art Gallery, Lancashire, UK
- Reference: Woods, C. Fairies in Victorian Art. Woodbridge, U.K.: Antique Coll. Club. 2000
- Web: Victorian Fairy Paintings
Doyle, Richard. British. 1824-1883
- — A —
- Title: The Triumphal March of the Elf King
- Medium: Lithograph
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Several light tan campanulate agarics in grass
- Web: The Victorian Web
- — B —
- Title: Fairy Rings and Toadstools
- Medium: Lithograph
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Russula-like mushrooms with fairies dancing around them
- Web: http://65.107.211.206/painting/doyle/wc/1.html
- — C —
- Title: He finds her and this is the consequence
- Medium: Lithograph
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Two fairies kissing across a Russsula-like mushroom
- Web: The Victorian Web
- — D —
- Title: An elfin dance by night
- Medium: Lithograph
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Several campanulate mushrooms
- Web: The Victorian Web
- — E —
- Title: Reposing by night
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Large, maybe Leccinum
- Web: The Victorian Web
Fortescue-Brickdale, Eleanor. British
- Title: The Introduction
- Medium: Pencil and watercolor, 48.8 x 32.2 cm.
- Mushroom description: Two agarics in foreground
- Reference: Woods, C. Fairies in Victorian Art. Woodbridge, U.K.: Antique Coll. Club. 2000.
Heatherly, Thomas. British
- — A —
- Title: Fairy Seated on a Mushroom. Ca. 1860
- Medium: Oval
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Stylized large mushrooms
- Web: http://www.denison.edu/art/fairy/pages/fairy121.htm
- — B —
- Title: Fairies Among Mushrooms
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 19.7 x 27 cm.
- Mushroom description: Fairy reposing on a large blue-green agaric with another agaric showing gills in background
- Reference: Woods, C. Fairies in Victorian Art. Woodbridge, U.K.: Antique Coll. Club. 2000.
- — C —
- Title: Fairy Resting on a Mushroom
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 19.7 x 27 cm.
- Location: Private collection
- Mushroom description: Large, flat topped blue-gray mushroom
- Web: The Bridgeman Art Library
Hunt, William Holtman. British
- Title: Valentine rescuing Sylvia from Proteus. 1851
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Location: City Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
- Mushroom description: Several capped mushrooms in right foreground
- Reference: Betthausen. Die Präraffaeliten. Berlin. 1989
- Web: Olga's Gallery
Ichuko, Azuma Higashi. Japanese, active 1984. (Added here because of style.)
- Title: Goblin. 1984
- Medium: 44.2x32 cm.
- Location: Fairy Art Museum, Tokyo
- Mushroom description: Goblin jumping over stylized capped mushroom
- Web: The Bridgeman Art Library
James, Laura Gwenllian. British
- Title: Where the Fairies Dance in a Place Apart. 1905
- Medium: Oil on panel 29.8 x 22.8
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Agarics (part of a ring) in a row
- Reference: Woods, C. Fairies in Victorian Art. Woodbridge, U.K.: Antique Coll. Club. 2000
Kinnard, Frederick G. British. Worked 1864-81
- Title: The Four Seasons. Spring
- Medium: Oil on board, 17.7x15.2 cm
- Location: Private collection
- Mushroom description: Two fairy children under capped mushrooms
- Web: The Bridgeman Art Library
Millais, John Everett. British. 1829-1886
- Title: Ferdinand lured by Ariel. 1849/50.
- Medium: Oil
- Location: Private collection, London
- Mushroom description: Tree trunk with Trametes gibbosa and capped mushrooms, right background
- Reference: Betthausen. Die Präraffaeliten. Berlin. 1989
- Web: Endicott Studio
Morgan, Walter Jenks British. 1847-1924
- Title: A Fairy Ring
- Medium: Watercolor with white heightening on paper, 15.5 x 23 cm.
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Fairies sitting and standing on a fairy ring of large, flat capped agarics
- Web: http://65.107.211.206/painting/fairy/morgan1.html
Parris, E.T. British
- Title: The Visit at Moonlight. 1832
- Location: Unknown
- Web: Victorian Fairy Paintings
Paton, Joseph Noel. Scottish. 1821-1901
- — A —
- Title: The quarrel of Oberon and Titania. 1849
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Location: National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
- Mushroom description: Several prominent mushrooms
- Web: Victorian Fairy Paintings
- Web: Emory University
- — B —
- Title: The Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Location: National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
- Mushroom description: Several prominent mushrooms with squamous caps in middle foreground
- Web: Victorian Fairy Paintings
- Web: Emory University
Rackham, Arthur. British. 1867-1939
- — A —
- Title: Come, Now a Roundel. 1908
- Location: Unknown
- Mushroom description: Mushroom fairy ring with fairies dancing in a circle outside it
- Web: Endicott Studio
- — B —
- Title: Fairy Music or Bonny Kilmeny
- Medium: Oil on board, 37.5 cm in diameter
- Mushroom description: Two agarics in middle background
- Reference: Woods, C. Fairies in Victorian Art. Woodbridge, U.K.: Antique Coll. Club. 2000.
- — C —
- Title: Puck and the Fairy
- Medium: Oil on card, 24.2 x 28 cm.
- Mushroom description: Russula with split cap in left foreground
- Reference: Woods, C. Fairies in Victorian Art. Woodbridge, U.K.: Antique Coll. Club. 2000.
- Web: Best Price Art
- — D —
- Title: The Fairy Raid. Carrying Off a Changeling, Midsummer Eve
- Medium: Oil on canvas, 90.5 x 146.7 cm.
- Location: Glasgow Museums: Art Gallery and Museums, Kelvingrove
- Mushroom description: Two, maybe, Russulas in foreground
- Reference: Woods, C. Fairies in Victorian Art. Woodbridge, U.K.: Antique Coll. Club. 2000.
- Web: Glasgow Museums
Reynolds, Sir Joshua. British. Plympton 1723-London 1792
- Title: Puck. 1789
- Medium: Oil
- Location: Illustration from the The Book of Fairies.
- Mushroom description: Forest scene with several cap mushrooms on the ground
- Web: Emory University
Spilsbury, Maria. British. 1777-1823
- Title: Where Mortal Thing Might Never Breathe
- Medium: Watercolor on paper 32.5x23.5
- Location: Fairy Art Museum, Tokyo
- Mushroom description: Fairy under a mature Coprinus comatus, next to an immature one
- Web: The Bridgeman Art Library
Wilson, George. British. 1848-1890
- Title: The Spring Witch. 1883-84
- Location: Delaware Art Museum
- Mushroom description: About six mushrooms on lower left, probably
- Lactarius sp. Short stipes, caps convex to sunken with inrolled margins on some. Greyish-brown tones