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A Floral Fantasy In An Old English Garden: Set Forth In Verses & Coloured Design, Book
This is a A Floral Fantasy in An Old English Garden: Set Forth in Verses & Coloured Design. It was written by Walter Crane.
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Smithsonian Libraries and Archives as part of Botanical Expressions.
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.
- Flora's Feast: A Masque Of Flowers, Book
- lithograph on paper.
- Gift of Elizabeth d’Hauteville Kean, Smithsonian Libraries, NX650.F57 C89f....
- 139.2018.9
- Napkin, The Senses
- linen warp, silk weft.
- Pauline Cooper Noyes Fund.
- 1988-80-1
- Doily, Flora's Retinue: Poppy
- linen warp, silk weft.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund and through gift of....
- 1994-28-5
Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Sidewall, The House that Jack Built
- machine-printed paper.
- Gift of Grace Lincoln Temple.
- 1938-62-57
- The Bases Of Design
- lithograph on paper.
- Smithsonian Libraries, NK1510 .C89.
- 139.2018.15
- Sidewall (USA)
- machine-printed, oil colors, textured ground.
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1931-45-115-a/d
Its dimensions are
H x W (book open): 27.3 × 40 cm (10 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Botanical Expressions.
