A Floral Fantasy In An Old English Garden: Set Forth In Verses & Coloured Design

This is a A Floral Fantasy in An Old English Garden: Set Forth in Verses & Coloured Design. It was written by Walter Crane. It is dated 1899. Its medium is lithograph on paper.

Crane often united natural motifs with medieval or folk imagery. Whether in his children’s books or in his graphics for the socialist movement, these pastoral, pseudo-historic scenes presented a vision of a utopian society. In A Floral Fantasy, an angel wearing a Phrygian cap—a symbol of revolution—leads the author through a garden in which humanized flowers live in an idealized, medieval society.

It is credited Gift of Elizabeth d’Hauteville Kean, Smithsonian Libraries, NX650 .F57 C89 1899.

Book, on loan from Smithsonian Institute Libraries