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Introductory image from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
Crane, Walter, 1900, Publisher's print
Introductory image from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
Introductory image from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
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Item no
40037
Title
Introductory image from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
Description
A small bird stands in the empty body of the page beside a feather quill and a pencil. It looks off-page to the right while behind it, a mouse is holding a paintbrush and painting a frieze - of a lion in flight from another mouse, clothed this time, and shooting a gun.
Artist / maker
Crane, Walter
Date
1900
Size
17.8 x 18.8 cm
Type
Publisher's print
Location
Art and Design Library
Introductory page from 'Baby's Own Aesop', a book for the nursery created by Walter Crane (1845 - 1915), and first published in 1887.
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Baby's Own Aesop
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Pencils
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