Walter Crane - part 16

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 - 15 also.

This is part 16 of a 19-part series on the works of Walter Crane.

1900 Don Quixote of the Mancha published by Blackie. Note These images are from a 1919 copy published by John Lane Company:

Title Page

Don Quixote watching his Amour

Don Quixote testing his helmet

The Knighting of Don Quixote

Don Quixote to the rescue of Andrew

The destruction of Don Quixote's Library

Don Qixote and the Windmills

Don Quixote and the Goatherds

The manner of Don Quixote's travel to the Inn

How Sancho paid the Reckoning

Of the Adventure of the two Armies

Of a wonderful adventure -

The rich winning of the helmet of Mambrino

Don Quixote frees the Galley Slaves

Don Quixote meeting Cardenio 

The Story of Cardenio

Don Quixote doing penance

The Curate & the Barber in disguise

The Story of Cardenio continued

The discovery of Dorothea

The Meeting of Dorothea & Don Quixote

Sancho Panza recovers his Dapple

Sancho's Story of his visit to the Lady Dulcinea

Andrew salutes Don Quixote

Don Quixote's extraordinary Battle

Of the rare Adventures at the Inn 

Don Quixote addressing Dorothea

The Enchantment of Don Quixote

The disputed Pommel

Don Quixote arrested

The manner of Don Quixote's return home

1901 A Masque of Days by Elia Dresses published by Cassell & Company Ltd., London:

(Note: I was unable to find story images from the book of sufficient quality to include here) 

Original artwork for front and back covers
watercolour and ink 205 x 285 cm
V&A Museum, London

Front cover

Title Page

1910 The Children's Plutarch published by Harper & Brothers, New York and London:

Brutus and his companions after the battle of Philippi

Caesar and the Pilot 

Coriolanus and the Matrons of Rome

Epaminondas defending Pelopidas

Marius sitting on a chair surrounded by
Roman Officers

Pelopidas setting out for Thebes

Philopcemen in Prison

The exiled Marius amidst the ruins of Carthage

The murder of Caesar

Themistocles at the Persian Court

Timoleon setting sail for Sicily

Alexander taming Bucephalus

The doom of Agis, Kind of Sparta

Hannibal & Marcellus

Numa & the Nymph

Phocion & the Macedonion Envoy

Pompey & Tidius Sextius