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Walter Crane: Neptune's Horses (detail), 1892
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Walter Crane Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
Many paintings online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Watercolor collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, UK
From the museum's Arts and Crafts collection; choose the designer from the drop-down list, then click on the object number(s)
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
3 works by or related to the artist
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Philadelphia Museum of Art
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Walter Crane at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Huntington Library, California
Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, England
Costume Design for Patience, 1880-90
University of Dundee Fine Art Collection, Scotland
Poppy Time, 1893
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Trees in a Park, ca.1871-75
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
8 works online when last checked
D'Outre Manche Database of British Art in French Public Collections
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Walter Crane at The Athenaeum 
My Soul is an Enchanted Boat
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Walter Crane at ArtMagick
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Walter Crane at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
A Celebration of Women Writers
The full text of The Cuckoo Clock, with Crane's illustrations
Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project
The Marquis of Carabas' Picture Book, illustrated by Walter Crane
Children's Literature Resources at Indiana University
Nina Auerbach's Homepage
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
The British Library, London, UK
The Marxist Internet Satire Archive
Selection of political cartoons
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
The Running Horse
Horses of Neptune
The Victorian Web
UK Government Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Walter Crane 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Spartacus Educational Books
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
search inside
Don Quixote of the Mancha
look inside
Illustrations from the Faerie Queen (Dover)
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