CRANE, Walter (1845-1915)

Lot 95
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Lot 95 | CRANE, Walter (1845-1915)
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£ 1 500 – 2 500
CRANE, Walter (1845-1915)

Tailpiece from The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser. London: George Allen, 1896.

105 x 135mm

pen and ink, heightened with white (toned where mounted)

signed attribution note on the verso by Lionel Crane: 'this is the work of my Father the late Walter Crane'

Framed



A fine example of Arts and Crafts book illustration by Walter Crane for Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene. Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene tells a series of discrete but interrelated stories based around the quests of six knights who each represent a particular virtue. Numerous adaptions of the 16th-century work were made for children in the 19th and early 20th centuries; in the 1890s, Walter Crane illustrated a six-volume edition of the complete poem, which is considered a fine example of the Arts and Crafts movement. The present work illustrated Book VI Canto III, page 1338 in the 1896 edition.



Exhibited: Hartnoll & Eyre, An Exhibition of Drawings by British Book Illustrators, 1875-1925, 1969., no 3.

19th Century

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