Flower fairies: olive, marvel of Peru, everlasting, myrtle, tobacco and laurel.

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Flower fairies: a sleeping olive in cotton bonnet, the marvel of Peru, everlasting with crown and snake headdress, myrtle as an old rogue, tobacco smoking a cigar and laurel as an old musketeer. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from "Les Fleurs Animees," Paris, Gabriel de Gonet, 1847.

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Size: 4321px × 6508px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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