Boatswain:— “Hence! What care these roarers for the name of king?” by Walter Crane

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Boatswain:— “Hence! What care these roarers for the name of king?”

Walter Crane, RWS 1845-1915

Source: The Work of Walter Crane (1898), p. 18.

This is an illustration to The Tempest

“By permission of Mr. Duncan C. Dallas & Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co.”

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In the lavishly illustrated survey of his career in a special Easter issue of the 1898 Art Journal, Crane explained that “the illustration of Shakespeare’s “Tempest” —a set of eight designs (pen-drawings) and a title-page, done to the play on the invitation of Mr. Duncan C. Dallas, the inventor of the Dallastype process, by which the drawings were reproduced. The work was published by Messrs. Dent and Co., and issued simply as a set of designs without the text. . . The leaf-border designed for the title-page was afterwards adapted by Mr. Dent for his “Temple” Shakespeare (though not improved by reduction), for which I supplied title-pages.”

Bibliography

The Work of Walter Crane with Notes by the Artist. The Easter Art Annual for 1898: Extra Number of the “Art Journal”. London: J. S. Virtue, 1898. P. 18. Internet Archive version of a copy in the Getty Art Institute. Web. 3 January 2018.

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