Walter Crane individual works - part 4

 

Walter Crane (1845-1915) was born in Liverpool, England; the second son of Thomas Crane, a portrait painter and miniaturist. He was a fluent follower of the newer art movements and he came to study and appreciate the detailed senses of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and was also a diligent student of the renowned artist and critic John Ruskin. A set of coloured page designs to illustrate Tennyson's “Lady of Shalott” gained the approval of wood-engraver William James Linton to whom Walter Crane was apprenticed for three years (1859–1862).

As a wood-engraver he had abundant opportunity for the minute study of the contemporary artists whose work passed through his hands, of Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais, as well as Alice in Wonderland illustrator Sir John Tenniel and Frederick Sandys. A further and important element in the development of his talent was the study of Japanese colour prints, the methods of which he imitated in a series of toy books, which started a new fashion.

For more information on Crane, and for a series on his illustrated books, see "Walter Crane books" in the side index.

This is part 4 of a 6-part series on individual works by Walter Crane:

c1890 St. Jude's, Whitechapel
wood engraving 23.1 x 17.2 cm
V&A Museum, London

c1890 The Ministering Children's League: The Young Knight
process engraving 20 x 14.2 cm

c1890 The Vampire
process engraving 37.5 x 28.5 cm

c1890 Where are you going to my pretty maid?
transfer-printed, polychromed, glazed earthenware
 15.2 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm
Brooklyn Museum, New York

1890s Spenser's Faerie Queene advertisement
process engraving 28.5 x 21.5 cm

1890s Jeffrey & Co.'s Artistic Wall Papers advertisement
process engraving 14.7 x 10.1 cm

c1890s Tile of lead-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed with a classical figure of Ignis
15.3 x 15.3 cm

c1890s  The Decorative Arts Guild Limited advertisemenet
process engraving 8.3 x 17.2 cm

c1890s The Cockatoo wallpaper design
process half-tone engraving print on paper

c1890s The Caxton Head Catalogue advertisement
process engraving 18.7 x 11.6 cm

c1890s Four Winds' ceiling paper
process half-tone engraving on paper

c1890s Echoes of Hellas advertisement
two colour lithograph

1891 "Cockatoo" wallpaper
colour woodblock print on paper 62.8 x 50.2 cm

1891 Design for a pilaster showing pomegranates, peacocks, squirrels, a serpent, lizards etc;
body-colour on paper 217.2 x 31.7 cm
V&A Museum, London

1891 In Memory of the Commune of Paris
process engraving 29.2 x 21.3 cm

1891 Iris and Pomegranate wallpaper frieze
colour woodblock print on paper 45.7 x 50.8 cm

1891 Iris and Pomegranate wallpaper frieze
colour woodblock print on paper 45.7 x 50.8 cm

1891 Proof of a design after a William Morris illustration to 'The Story of the Glittering Plain'
wood engraving 27.5 x 20.2 cm

1891 Queen Summer, or the Tourney of the Lily and the Rose
watercolour 19.3 x 16.5 cm

1891 Renascence - A Book of Verse by Walter Crane
front cover

1891 Singing Bird wallpaper by Jeffrey & Co.
colour woodblock print on paper 57.1 x 53.3 cm

1891 Singing Bird wallpaper by Jeffrey & Co.
colour woodblock print on paper 57.1 x 53.3 cm

1891 Singing Bird wallpaper by Jeffrey & Co.
colour woodblock print on paper 57.1 x 53.3 cm

1893c The New Coinage
Illustration for The Pall Mall Budget 9 February 1893
graphite and Indian ink on paper 12.8 x 13.6 cm

1894 Champagne Hau & Co. Reims
 colour lithograph poster 74.5 x 55 cm

1894 Danseuse aux cymbales
lithograph on laid paper 43.2 x 29.5 cm (image)
Brooklyn Museum, New York

1894 Lilies
process engraving 9.6 x 7.6 cm

1894 Lily and Rose wallpaper design
colour woodblock print on paper 59.6 x 53.3 cm

1894 Teasel wallpaper
colour woodblock print on paper 89.5 x 51.4 cm

1894 The Swan Maidens
oil and mixed media on paper 27.2 x 20 cm
Private Collection

1894 The Swan Maidens
process engraving 10.1 x 9.6 cm

c1894 Pegasus
process engraving 10.1 x 8.8 cm

c1894 The Worker's May Pole
Dallastype process engraving 31.2 x 18.5 cm

The Worker's May Pole detail

The Worker's May Pole detail

1895 A Book of Christmas Verse by H.C. Beeching
Methuen and Co., London

1895 A Book of Christmas Verse
Title Page

1895 A Rocking Hym
from A Book of Christmas Verse

1895 A Garland for May Day
©The Trustees of the British Museum

1895 Design for the Ancoats Brotherhood, Manchester

1895 Sleeping Bulldog
pencil on paper 20.3 x 25.4 cm
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
San Marion CA

1895-1905 Economic Life Office Insurance Company advertisement
process engraving

1895-1915 Advertisement for the Scottish Widow's Fund
process engraving 19.6 x 13.8 cm

c1895 Design for a Brussels carpet
pencil and watercolour 91 x 67.5 cm

c1895 Fig and Peacock wallpaper design
colour woodblock print on paper 88.2 x 52.1 cm