Walter Crane - part 13

Walter Crane (15 August 1845 – 14 March 1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the later 19th century.

Crane's 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, wallpapers and other decorative arts. Crane is also remembered for his creation of a number of iconic images associated with the international socialist movement.

For more in-depth biographical notes see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 1 - 12 also.

This is part 13 of a 19-part series on the works of Walter Crane. 

1893 Columbia's Courtship pulished by L. Prang & Co., Boston, MA:

Miss America as La Belle Sauvage Fancy Free

The Norseman Came

Columbus Saw

Spain Conquered

The Englishman

The Dutchman

The Frenchman

And other suitors from over the water put in their claims

But she prefers her own Independence

After a struggle involving a question of color she puts on a new costume

And ordering her United State Coach

She is conducted by Chicago to the World's Fair

1893 (and 1894) Illustrations to Shakespeare's Tempest published by J.M. Dent & Co. London & Copeland & Day, Boston, Mass.

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By accident most strange, bountiful fortune,
now my dear lady hath mine enemies
brought to this shore, -

The dance of the nymphs & the reapers

A noise of hunters is heard. Enter diverse spirits in the
shape of hounds, do hunt them about Ariel setting them on.

Miranda: If you'll sit down I'll bear your logs the while.
Pray give me that, I'll carry it to the pile.

Boatswain; "Hence! What care these roarers forfor the name of the King?"

Ferdinand: Most sure, the Goddess on whom these airs attend!

Caliban: As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant: A sorcerer -

Miranda. Sweet Lord you play me false Ferdinand.
No my dearest love I would not for the world.

1895 A Book of Christmas Verse published by Methuen and Company:

A Rocking Hymn

Caput apri defero (I bring the boar's head)

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

The Angels

The Three Kings

Three Damsels in the Queen's Chamber

1897 Mother Hubbard, Her Picture Book:

Her neck did she CRANE
As she looked up the LANE

She went rather nearer
To get a good look

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Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard

She went to the baker’s
To buy him some bread

She took a clean dish
To get him some tripe

She went to the tavern
For white wine and red

She went to the tailor’s
To buy him a coat

She went to the sempstress
To buy him some linen

The Dame made a curtsey

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