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Page ten from 'Flora's Feast', the Lady-smocks
Crane, Walter, 1902, Publisher's print
Page ten from 'Flora's Feast', the Lady-smocks
Page ten from 'Flora's Feast', the Lady-smocks
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Title
Page ten from 'Flora's Feast', the Lady-smocks
Description
Two women wearing pale blue and pink dresses carry the accessories of milk-maids: a bucket, in this instance filled with lady-smock (or milk-maid) flowers; and a stool. The accompanying text reads:
"The "Lady smocks all silver white"
The milk-maids of the meadows bright".
Artist / maker
Crane, Walter
Date
1902
Size
25.0 x 18.5 cm
Type
Publisher's print
Location
Art and Design Library
As with the previous page, the flower people in this illustration are engaged in agricultural work, dismissing the contemporary association of labour with machines. This time their role in the community as milk maids is the result of wordplay as Crane calls upon the alternative name for lady-smocks.
The dresses they are wearing also form part of the eclectic mix of styles represented throughout the book that come together to build a case in favour of diversity and freedom in contemporary fashion.
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Flora's Feast by Walter Crane
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