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:
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| Don Quixote watching his Amour |
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| Don Quixote testing his helmet |
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| The Knighting of Don Quixote |
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| Don Quixote to the rescue of Andrew |
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| The destruction of Don Quixote's Library |
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| Don Qixote and the Windmills |
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| Don Quixote and the Goatherds |
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| The manner of Don Quixote's travel to the Inn |
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| How Sancho paid the Reckoning |
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| Of the Adventure of the two Armies |
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| Of a wonderful adventure - |
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| The rich winning of the helmet of Mambrino |
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| Don Quixote frees the Galley Slaves |
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| Don Quixote meeting Cardenio |
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| The Story of Cardenio |
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| Don Quixote doing penance |
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| The Curate & the Barber in disguise |
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| The Story of Cardenio continued |
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| The discovery of Dorothea |
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| The Meeting of Dorothea & Don Quixote |
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| Sancho Panza recovers his Dapple |
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| Sancho's Story of his visit to the Lady Dulcinea |
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| Andrew salutes Don Quixote |
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| Don Quixote's extraordinary Battle |
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| Of the rare Adventures at the Inn |
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| Don Quixote addressing Dorothea |
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| The Enchantment of Don Quixote |
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| The disputed Pommel |
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| Don Quixote arrested |
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| 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)
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Original artwork for front and back covers
watercolour and ink 205 x 285 cm
V&A Museum, London |
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| Front cover |
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| Title Page |
1910 The Children's Plutarch published by Harper & Brothers, New York and London:
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| Brutus and his companions after the battle of Philippi |
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| Caesar and the Pilot |
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| Coriolanus and the Matrons of Rome |
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| Epaminondas defending Pelopidas |
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Marius sitting on a chair surrounded by
Roman Officers |
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| Pelopidas setting out for Thebes |
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| Philopcemen in Prison |
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| The exiled Marius amidst the ruins of Carthage |
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| The murder of Caesar |
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| Themistocles at the Persian Court |
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| Timoleon setting sail for Sicily |
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| Alexander taming Bucephalus |
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| The doom of Agis, Kind of Sparta |
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| Hannibal & Marcellus |
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| Numa & the Nymph |
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| Phocion & the Macedonion Envoy |
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| Pompey & Tidius Sextius |
