Page Thirty-eight from 'Flora's Feast', the Tiger Lily

Category

Library Item

Item no

40168

Title

Page thirty-eight from 'Flora's Feast', the Tiger Lily

Description

A naked female figure wrapped inside a tiger lily stretches out her arms and looks down upon the two energetic tigers that emerge from flowers in front of her that she intends to command. The accompanying text reads:
"When lilies, turned to Tigers, blaze
Amid the garden's tangled maze".

Artist / maker

Crane, Walter

Date

1902

Size

25.0 x 18.5 cm

Type

Publisher's print

Location

Art and Design Library

Crane continues to draw on the associations that a child may make in their head between the name of the flower and what it may also refer to in a fun manner. In this instance the tiger-lily plants become actual tigers. This practice confirms the increasing importance of children as a distinct audience for illustrators to appeal to.

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