{"id":2670,"date":"2008-08-17T15:17:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T15:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2020-06-17T15:21:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T15:21:51","slug":"walter-crane-when-the-bright-god-of-day-august-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/2008\/08\/17\/walter-crane-when-the-bright-god-of-day-august-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Crane: When the Bright God of Day – August 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When the Bright God of Day from Pan-pipes: a book of old songs<\/em>, 2nd ed. [ca. 1890] (White (Robert) Collection, W 784.3 MAR)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This image is taken from an illustrated music book featuring decorative colour illustrations by the artist Walter Crane (1845-1915).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walter Crane was one of the leading lights of the Arts and Crafts Movement in England, along with other major designers including the likes of William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. The Arts and Crafts movement aimed to recapture the spirit and quality of traditional craftsmanship in response to what many saw as the soulless mass-production of the factories of the Industrial Revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crane became especially renowned as a children’s book illustrator and was interested in the design of the book as a whole, concerning himself as much with borders and typography as with the illustrations themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pan Pipes book from which this image is taken features musical scores for a variety of traditional songs, accompanied by Crane’s bold and elaborate border panels featuring images of lovers, beautiful maidens, gallant soldiers and the like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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