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 3 of a 6-part series on individual works by Walter Crane:
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| 1888 A Diver wood engraving 8.2 x 10.1 cm |
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| 1888 A Water Lily process engraving 11.4 x 4.5 cm |
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| 1888 Atlanta No.8 May issue wood engraving |
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| 1888 Scottish Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 51.6 cm |
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| 1888 Hand-enamelled Queen's ware vase with enamelled decoration one of a pair for Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Etruria 19.9 x 14,1 cm |
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| 1888 The Scottish Art Review, September issue design pen and ink on paper 32.5 x 26.3 cm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| 1888 The Scottish Art Review September wood engraving |
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| 1888 The Scottish Provident Institution design for a calendar pen & watercolour on paper 28.7 x 22 cm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| 1888 Vive la Commune! lithograph 32.3 x 20.5 cm |
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| 1889 Christmas No. of "United Ireland." colour lithograph 37 x 15.6 cm |
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| dated 1889, made 1901 Vase of earthenware painted in lustre 22.1 height x 23.7cm diameter |
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| 1889 designed 1889, made 1890-1901 Vase The Shropshire pottery, Maw & Co 22.6 cm (height) x 24 cm ((width) |
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| 1889 Flora wood engraving 10.1 x 7.6 cm |
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| 1889 Peacock Garden wallpaper colour print from wood blocks 132.1 x 53.3 cm |
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| 1889 Scottish Widows Fund design lithograph on paper 34.1 x 27.9 cm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| 1889 Scottish Widows Fund design lithograph on paper 31.7 x 25.3 cm x 27.9 cm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| 1889 Sixteen tiles representing a man ploughing a field lustred and glazed earthenware plaque 31.5 x 118.8 cm Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum |
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| 1889 The English Illustrated Magazine December issue wood engraving |
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| 1889 The Pioneer, October issue wood engraving |
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| 1889 Vignette showing a marriage ceremony between a girl and a rabbit process engraving 5 x 8.8 cm |
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| c1889-1915 Wood - Notes wallpaper design process half-tone engraving, on paper |
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| c1889 Advertisement reproduction of the "The Peacock Garden" wallpaper process half-tone engraving print, on paper |
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| c1889 Ploughing tile panel earthenware, painted in lustre |
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| Ploughing tile panel detail |
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| Ploughing tile panel detail |
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| 1890 Corona Vitae wallpaper colour print from wood blocks on paper |
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| 1890 Girls and boys come out to play embroidery silks on cotton 44 x 106 cm |
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| Girls and boys come out to play detail |
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| Girls and boys come out to play detail |
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| 1890 The Heroic Deed of Alice Ayres wood engraving after a painting 7.9 x 11.4 cm |
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| 1890 Season Ticket for The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 7.6 x 13.3 cm |
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| 1890 The Art Review January issue wood engraving |
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| 1890 The Children and the Forget-Me-Nots process engraving 12.4 x 7.8 cm |
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| 1890 The Departure of the Black Ship process engraving 15.2 x 23.6 cm |
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| 1890 The English Illustrated Magazine, January issue wood engraving |
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| 1890 The Maiden Loved of Cleomenes process engraving 18.5 x 23.8 cm |
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| 1890 The Maiden Loved of Cleomenes "Drawing the Lot" process engraving 27.9 x 24.6 cm |
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| 1890 The Princess Forget-me-Not and Mavis process engraving 12.4 x 7.8 cm |
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| 1890 Wallpaper frieze colour print from wood blocks on paper 61 x 83.8 cm |
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| c1890 Labour's May Day lithograph 33 x 21.9 cm |
