Friday, 13 September 2013
Walter Crane – part 8
Walter Crane (1845–1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He
is considered to be the most prolific and influential children’s book creator
of his generation and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate
Greenaway. His 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 and other decorative arts.
For full biographical notes on Walter Crane see part 1.
For earlier works see parts 1 - 7 also. This is part 8 of a 12-part post on the
children’s books of Walter Crane:
1887 The Baby's Own Aesop
1887 The Baby's Own Aesop
 |
| Dust cover |
 |
| Front cover |
 |
| Inside front cover |
 |
| End-paper |
 |
| End-paper |
 |
| Title page |
 |
| Preface |
 |
| Dedication |
 |
| Contents page |
 |
| The Fox And The Grapes |
 |
| The Cock And The Pearl / The Wolf And The Lamb |
 |
| The Wind And The Sun |
 |
| King Log And King Stork |
 |
| The Frightened Lion |
 |
| The Mouse And The Lion / The Married Mouse |
 |
| Hercules And The Waggoner |
 |
| The Lazy Housemaids |
 |
| The Snake And The File / The Fox And The Crow |
 |
| The Dog In The Manger / The Frog And The Bull |
 |
| The Fox And The Crane |
 |
| Horse And Man / The ass And The Enemy |
 |
| The Fox And The Mosquitoes / The Fox And The Lion |
 |
| The Miser And His Gold / The Golden Eggs |
 |
| The Man That Pleased None |
 |
| The Oak And The Reeds / The Fir And The Bramble |
 |
| The Trees And The Woodman |
 |
| The Hart And The Vine |
 |
| The Man And The Snake |
 |
| The Fox And The Mask |
 |
| The Ass In The Lion's Skin |
 |
| The Lion And The Statue |
 |
| The Boaster |
 |
| The Vain Jackdaw |
 |
| The Peacock's Complaint |
 |
| The Two Jars / The Two Crabs |
 |
| Brother And Sister |
 |
| The Fox Without A Tail |
 |
| The Dog and The Shadow |
 |
| The Crow And The Pitcher / The Eagle And The Crow |
 |
| The Blind Doe |
 |
| The Geese And The Cranes |
 |
| The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner |
 |
| Hot And Cold |
 |
| Neither Beast Nor Bird |
 |
| The Stag In The Ox Stall / The Deer And The Lion |
 |
| The Lion In Love |
 |
| The Cat And Venus / Mice In Council |
 |
| The Hen And The Fox / The Cat And The Fox |
 |
| The Hare And The Tortoise / The Hares And The Frogs |
 |
| Porcupine, Snake, And Company / The Bear And The Bees |
 |
| The Bundle Of Sticks |
 |
| The Farmer's Treasure |
 |
| The Cock, The Ass And The Lion |
 |
| Fortune And The Boy |
 |
| The Ungrateful Wolf / The Fisherman And The Fish |
 |
| The Herdsman's Vows / The Horse And The Ass |
 |
| The Ass And The Sick Lion |
 |
| Back cover |
Translate
Powered by 
Translate
TranslateAbout me
- Poul Webb
- Francis Kyle Gallery:
"Educated at the Cambridge School of Art. Soon after he graduated his
work was exhibited at the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition and in 1973
in the British International Drawing Biennale at Bradford. In the mid
1970s he showed twice in major International Exhibitions of Original
Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in Rijeka and work of his was
acquired at this time by H.M. Government Art Collection. In 1987 he was
one of Ten British Watercolourists shown at the Museum of Fine Arts,
Bilbao. Since 1990 Webb has worked largely in oils on canvas."
Brian Sewell, Art Critic:
"Poul Webb's art is the focus on the familiar, on things so commonplace that they are not noticed - and here they suddenly are, edged by the eye of a painter into a heightened reality that stops well short of hallucination, yet has the quality of a waking dream."
