Comments on: Poetic license http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/poetic-license/ The Best In Sci-Fi & Fantasy, News, Reviews, Graphic Novels, comics and more! Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:52:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=8325 By: Joe http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/poetic-license/comment-page-1/#comment-244694 Joe Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:07:28 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=12237#comment-244694 Thanks, Charles, I knew someone would be able to identify it - very interesting about the Conan Doyle connection too especially, as you say, given his later belief in faeries and spiritulaism. Thanks, Charles, I knew someone would be able to identify it – very interesting about the Conan Doyle connection too especially, as you say, given his later belief in faeries and spiritulaism.

]]> By: Charles Vess http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/poetic-license/comment-page-1/#comment-244459 Charles Vess Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:25:41 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=12237#comment-244459 That would be Richard 'Dickey' Doyle (the uncle of Arthur Conan Doyle by the way) the first artist to popularize dimunative fairy types. Before his hugely popular fairy albums they had always been depicted as human sized. That particular illustration is from 'In Fairyland, Pictures from the Elf World' published in 1870. Richard's brother (thus A Cs father), Charles Altmont Doyle was also a 'fairy painter' but he spent most of his life in an insane asylum. Small wonder that Arthur wanted so hard to believe in fairies that he certified as real the (obviously faked) photographs of wee fae types taken by the two Victorian girls know as the Cottingley Faires. Best, Charles That would be Richard ‘Dickey’ Doyle (the uncle of Arthur Conan Doyle by the way) the first artist to popularize dimunative fairy types. Before his hugely popular fairy albums they had always been depicted as human sized.

That particular illustration is from ‘In Fairyland, Pictures from the Elf World’ published in 1870.

Richard’s brother (thus A Cs father), Charles Altmont Doyle was also a ‘fairy painter’ but he spent most of his life in an insane asylum.

Small wonder that Arthur wanted so hard to believe in fairies that he certified as real the (obviously faked) photographs of wee fae types taken by the two Victorian girls know as the Cottingley Faires.

Best,
Charles

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