Buttercups

Category

Library Item

Item no

30849

Title

Buttercups

Description

Two children personifications of buttercups with a cow. Text: 'Where shining Buttercups abound,/ Among the Cowslips on the ground'.

Artist / maker

Crane, Walter

Date

1895

Size

25.0 x 18.0 cm

Type

Publisher's print

Location

Art and Design Library

The personification of buttercups matches other images of children in gardens by Crane where they are happy and surrounded by nature. This again could be seen as a comment on the importance for children to be free to use their imaginations and in an ideal situation to have a childhood spent outside, surrounded by nature. The clear association with the Arts and Crafts Movement, Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism which were relatively obvious in other works by Crane are not so clear in this book, instead Crane's style has simplified; there are still some elements, but he has created his own unique aesthetic.

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