The New York Times Book Review, Sarah Harrison Smith
The best of these paintings belie the insipidity of later, more familiar renderings of fairyland. Like the Victorian era itself, they are far more complicated and ambiguous than is commonly remembered.
Publisher comments
Victorian Fairy Painting has received outstanding reviews
"Most of all I appreciate the catalogue. This is one of the times when an exhibition of visual interest comes with a publication of permanent value...Detailed, knowledgeable and illuminating, the catalogue is the best book on 19th-century British art to have appeared in some years." - The Independent
"Most of all I appreciate the catalogue. This is one of the times when an exhibition of visual interest comes with a publication of permanent value...Detailed, knowledgeable and illuminating, the catalogue is the best book on 19th-century British art to have appeared in some years." - The Independent
"as powerful an inducement to fancy as the opium that inspired a number of the paintings." - The New York Times
"magnificient...What a splendid and perceptive writer Maas was, mixing outstanding scholarship with great warmth and just a flavour of gossip and intrigue. His essay sets a lively tone for the rest of the catalogue, which contains important and equally fascinating contributions...It proves excellent value and is well worth the money." - Antiques and Collectibles
"magnificently sinister" - The Times
