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Walter Crane, artist
British, 1845 - 1915
Fifth illustration, on page 6, of Old Mother Hubbard in the book The Marquis of Carabas' Picture Book by Walter Crane/printed in colours by Edmund Evans (London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. [ca. 1875]), circa 1875
color wood engraving
240 x 180 mm (9 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Gift of Mrs. W. Robert Phillips 1992.142.12

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printer, Edmund Evans~publisher, George Routledge and Sons

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Artist Biography: Born in Liverpool, son of the portrait miniaturist, Thomas Crane. He was apprenticed (1859-62) to the wood engraver W. J. Linton and was taught to draw on wood by Linton's partner Orrin Smith. He also studied at the Zoological Gardens and attended drawing classes at Heatherly's School of Art. He worked for the engraver and printer Edmund Evans during the 1860s and 1870s, first designing covers for 'yellowbacks' and soon afterwards illustrating the inexpensive children's toy books that established his reputation. They represented the first successful attempt to mass-produce well-drawn, designed and printed books in color for young children. His creative approach to page design was evident throughout his work and he was one of the first illustrators to acknowledge the visual unity of the double page spread. Through trained as a draftsman for wood engraving, he transferred very successfully to working for photomechanical reproduction when this was introduced at the beginning of the 1890s. He was at the forefront of the Arts and Crafts movement and his own work has played a significant part in the development of the Aesthetic style of the late 1870s and 1880s. (from Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century by Brigid Peppin and Lucy Micklethwait (New York: Arco Publishing, 1984)

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