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She has small, insert-like wings and, towards the top of the head, two small brown horns. To the right a smaller, similar, figure wearing a pale green dress with blue tassels to the waist and blue tights and with blue wings. To the left a pencil sketch of the bodice. 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Audrey Cruddas made designs for Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, during her illness in the 1940s, purely for her own amusement, and this design may have been produced then. 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