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Descriptive Summary

Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Location: pf
Call No.: MS Typ 1088
Creator: Crane, Walter, 1845-1915.
Title: Drawings for book illustrations,
Date(s): 1885-1911.
Quantity: 1 v. (.2 linear ft.)
Abstract: Pencil and pen-and-ink illustrations for children's books by English illustrator Walter Crane.

Acquisition Information:

Historical Note

Crane was an English illustrator, painter, and designer primarily known for his imaginative illustrations of children's books.

Scope and Content

Contains pencil and pen-and-ink illustrations for children's books, including 35 studies for the illustrations of Constance Cary Harrison's Bric-a-brac stories, among others.

Container List

• (1) Crane, Walter, 1845-1915. [Bric-a-brac stories. ] 35 pencil and pen-and-ink studies for the 24 illustrations to the compilation by Constance (Cary) Harrison. New York, 1885. Published in England as Folk and fairy tales. With correspondence from Charles Scribners Sons to Crane about the publication. Mounted in a blank book. Massé, p. 36.

• (2) Crane, Walter, 1845-1915. [Program for Christmas fairy fête. Pen-and-ink drawing, 1911.

• (3) Crane, Walter, 1845-1915. [The wanderings of Arasmon. ] 3 pen-and-ink drawings.

• (4) Crane, Walter, 1845-1915. [A Sicilian idyll. ] Pen-and-ink drawing for frontispiece to John Todhunter's play, London, 1890.

• (5) Crane, Walter, 1845-1915. [The dawn, and The west wind. ] 2 pen-and-ink and China white drawings, dated 1897.