WALTER CRANE | THE SLEEPING BEAUTY

The English artist Walter Crane had a prolific career as a children’s book illustrator, depicting beloved subjects from fairy tales and nursery rhymes. In 1882, in collaboration with his sister Lucy Crane, Walter published Household Stories from the Collection of the Bros. Grimm, and its Sleeping Beauty is an apparent variation of the present work. The Sleeping Beauty also shows the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, the Arts and Crafts movement and Japanese woodblock printing.