General
- Biographical Introduction
- Walter Crane on his childhood and early influences
- The Arts and Crafts Movement
Illustrations for Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
- [Chariot-boat pulled by fish]
- [Nymph between two satyrs]
- Boatswain:— “Hence! What care these roarers for the name of king?”
- The gentle squire recovers grace
- The House of Pride
- The Masque of Cupid
Fairy Tales, Toy Books and other Children’s Books
- At last he came to the tower & opened the door
- The Almond Tree
- The Dumb Princess
- The Hind in the Wood
- Princess Belle Etoile
- I saw three ships
- The Peacock’s Complaint
- [The Gifts]
- So Wind, blow Conrad’s hat away
- Panpipes
- Title-page and illustration from A Romance of the Three R’s
- The fond Convolvulus still clings
- Hercules and the Old Man of the Sea
- Each Rose, each Lily’s head
- [The Furies pursuing Orestes]
- Title-page of Bluebeard's Picture Book
- Title-page of "Bluebeard"
- [Bluebeard and his wife]
- [Bluebeard's wife]
- [Bluebeard's wife opens the forbidden door]
- [Bluebeard's wife pleads with her husband]
- [Sister Ann]
- [Bluebeard's wife about to be slain]
- [Bluebeard's brothers-in-law attack him]
- Title-page of "The Sleeping Beauty"
- Introducing the story of "The Sleeping Beauty"
- [The princess is tempted to try spinning yarn]
- [The princess, pricked by the spindle]
- [The young prince]
- [The prince arrives at the castle]
- [The prince finds the slumbering princess]
- [The prince has woken her with a kiss]
- [The prince and princess arm-in-arm]
Other Illustrations
- Title page of George Meredith's Farina
- Most sure, the goddess on whom these airs attend (Illustration for Shakespeare’s The Tempest
- The First of May
- As though a new Pandora raisd the lid
- Reconciliation
- The Triumph of Labour
- Imperial Federation Map of the World Showing the Extent of the
British Empire in 1886
Illustrations in the Realistic Sixties Style
- The Islanders fell back from them
- Fashionable Promenades: Kensington Gardens on a Band Day
- The London Carnival
Headpieces, Tailpieces, and Other Page Decoration
- Woman reading in a hammock
- Illuminated initial T
- Tailpiece for “The Goose Girl”
- Deer & Trumpet
- Tailpiece: Pegasus and the Sun
- Title-page for The Work of Walter Crane — the Art Journal’s 1898 Easter Art Annual.
Work in other media
Bibliography
Spencer, Isobel. Walter Crane. New York: Macmillan, 1975.
The Studio [London] 9 (1897): 59-60.
Tancini, Francesca. Walter Crane: Books in Colour. 2 Vols. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with Cotsen Children’s Library, Princeton University Library, 2025. [Review by Simon Cooke.]
Last modified 4 August 2025