Saturday 7 September 2013

Walter Crane – part 5

Walter Crane (1845–1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most prolific and influential children’s book creator of his generation and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway. His work featured some of the more colourful and detailed beginnings of the child-in-the-garden motifs that would characterise many nursery rhymes and children's stories for decades to come. He was part of the Arts and Crafts movement and produced an array of paintings, illustrations, children's books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts.

For full biographical notes on Walter Crane see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 1 -4 also.

This is part 5 of a 12-part post on the children's books of Walter Crane:


1877 The Baby's Opera:

Cover


End-paper


Title page





Dedication


Contents page


Girls and Boys Come Out To Play


Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush


Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush


Oranges and Lemons


St. Paul's Steeple


How Does My Lady's Garden Grow?


How Does My Lady's Garden Grow?


Natural History


Lavender's Blue


I Saw Three Ships


I Saw Three Ships


Ding Dong Bell


Puss At Court


Three Blind Mice


Dickory Dock


The Frog's Wooing


The Frog's Wooing


The Frog and The Crow


The Frog and The Crow


Mrs Bond


Mrs Bond


Christmas Day In The Morning


Little Jack Horner


Good King Arthur


Good King Arthur


A Jolly Miller


A Song Of Sixpence


Little Bo Peep


Little Bo Peep


Baa! Baa! Black Sheep


Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son


There Was A Lady Loved A Swine


There Was A Lady Loved A Swine


Over The Hills And Far Away


Cock Robin and Jenny Wren


I Had A Little Nut Tree


I Had A Little Nut Tree


Dr. Faustus


Three Children


My Pretty Maid


Where Are You Going To My Pretty Maid?


The Plough Boy In Luck


Warm Hands


Jack and Jill


Jack and Jill


Dance A Baby


Hush-A-By-Baby


Old King Cole


Old King Cole