"Most sure, the goddess on whom these airs attend," by Walter Crane

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Most sure, the goddess on whom these airs attend

Walter Crane, RWS 1845-1915

Illustration for Shakespeare's The Tempest published by J. M. Dent and Sons

Source: Modern Book Illustrators and Their Work, p. 60.

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Formatting and text by George P. Landow

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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 Dal- lastype process, by which the drawings were repro- duced. 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

Crane, Walter. 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. Internet Archive version of a copy in the Getty Art Institute. Web. 3 January 2018.

Salaman, M.C. Modern Book Illustrators and heir Work. Ed. C. Geoffrey Holme and Ernest G. Halton. London: The Studio Ltd., 1914. Internet Archive version in a copy of the Cornell University Library. Web. 24 December 2012.

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