Book  (Oct 2001)  Page(s) 186.  Includes photo(s).
 
Clematis 'Fairy Queen'
Thomas Cripps and Son (England) before 1875
First displayed in 1875
... single, large, pale pink flowers... eight broad, slightly gappy tepals, each with a mauvish pink central bar and intense veining... For early flowers, choose [pruning] group 2; for later flowers [pruning] group 3...

Book  (Apr 1998)  Page(s) 127.  

Website/Catalog  (1926)  Page(s) 55.  
 
Fairy queen, rose.

Website/Catalog  (1924)  Page(s) 107.  
 
Fairy Queen (Lanuginosa). Très large, chair pâle, à mediane rose.

Website/Catalog  (1912)  Page(s) 77.  
 
Summer and Autumn Clematis.
In bloom from July to October.
These flower upon the wood of the current year's growth, and should therefore be pruned to five or six eyes.  
Fairy Queen, pale flesh, with a striking pink bar in the centre of each petal...  1s. 6d

Website/Catalog  (1907)  Page(s) 65.  
 
Clematis in pots to plant out in spring and summer.
General Collection.
20 Fairy Queen (lanuginosa), pale flesh.

Book  (1906)  Page(s) 52.  
 
Principal garden varieties of Clematis:
Lanuginosa type. (July to October.)
Fairy Queen... Pale flesh, pink bar.

Magazine  (1900)  Page(s) 316.  
 
In "Hybrid Clematis," by Mr. A. G. Jackman, pp. 315-322, in which the foremost hybridizers are listed:
Messrs. Cripps & Son have also introduced several good varieties, principally of the lanuginosa type. I am not acquainted, however, with any specific crosses they have made, but amonst the varieties raised by them, C. Lady Caroline Nevill, C. Madame van Houtte, C. Tunbridgensis, C. Star of India and C. Fairy Queen still retain honoured places in good collections.

Book  (1898)  Page(s) 62.  
 
Variétés Horticoles
1er Groupe.—PATENS
Section II. — Lanuginosa.
Fairy Queen (Cripps). Large fleur, d'un coloris chair pâle, avec des bandes médianes rosées.

Magazine  (1880)  Page(s) plate 387.  Includes photo(s).
 
Clematis, Fairy Queen.
This is one of the fine new varieties raised by Messrs. T. Cripps and Son, Nurserymen, Tunbridge Wells, to whom we are indebted for some beautiful and useful forms of the hardy Clematis.  It belongs to the C. lamigruosa section, and the flower in the accompanying illustration is really undersized.  It was exhibited at one of the meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society in July, 1875, and awarded a First-class Certificate of Merit.  The flowers are very large, occasionally nine inches across; the colour pale flesh, with a striking pale bar in the centre of each sepal, with a purple shading at the base.  The Gardener's Chronicle alluded to it at the time of its being shown as "of an indescribably beautiful colour", indeed it is difficult to set forth in any description a true estimate of its charming appearance.  It is a very free-blooming variety, and in addition to its value as a hardy climber in the open air, it also bids fair to become a most acceptable decorative and exhibition plant, cultivated in pots.  Though new Clematises increase with great rapidity, there is apparently no limit to the almost infinite variety of the shades of colour they exhibit.