Walter Crane - part 19

 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 - 18 also.

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

1912 Robin Hood and the Men of the Greenwood by Henry Gilbert:

Little John and the Forester

Little John and the Knight

Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale

Robin Hood and Father Tuck

Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne

Robin Hood and his men kneel to the King

Robin Hood and Little John

Robin Hood and the Beggar-Spy

Robin Hood and the Lady

Robin Hood as the Potter

Robin Hood coming To Kirklees Hall

Robin Hood is thanked by the Peasants

The Abbot of Saint Maries taken by Robin Hood

The black arrow

The King joins the hands of Robin Hood and Maid Marian

The rescue of Will Stutley

1914 The Story of Greece published by Thomas Nelson and Sons, London and New York:

She changed her into a spider

Sweet, piercing sweet was the music of Pan’s pipe

Demeter rejoiced, for her daughter was by her side

The Wind-god sent a gust from the south

For two days and two nights the boat was tossed hither and thither

Often she would stand upon the walls of Troy

‘Yea, verily thou art Odysseus’

In the earliest times a simple foot-race was the only event

Solon, the wise lawgiver of Athens

They crashed into the Persian army with tremendous force

Ship dashed against ship, till the Persian dead strewed the deep ‘like flowers’

He stood silent before the king

The figure of the goddess was a colossal one

He became a target for every arrow

He drank the contents as though it were a draught of wine

The multitude saluted him with loud acclamations

He left the assembly, hiding his face in his cloak

He ran toward the horse and seized the bridle

With an effort he looked at them as they passed