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Start Over Collection Walter Crane Collection, 1876-1915

Walter Crane Collection, 1876-1915 3.79 Linear Feet

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915

The collection contains original sketches, drawings, autograph manuscripts, and autograph letters, signed, by the English illustrator Walter Crane. Prominent are the original drawings for two of Crane's illustrated books, Queen Summer, or The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose (London: Cassell & Co., 1891) and A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1899). Correspondents include Kineton Parkes and Frederic Shields. Also present is a ceramic tile bearing an image by Crane, and his watercolor landscape titled "Swedish Twilight."

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library