Suggestions for the municipal school of art, Manchester, 1893 Sep 17 / Walter Crane.

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Suggestions for the municipal school of art, Manchester, 1893 Sep 17 / Walter Crane.

Proposal for an school of art for Manchester, England. Laid in is a letter in holograph and signed dated 1888 Nov 24 to Robert E. Dell.

[6] leaves : ill. 32 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7945033

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Crane, Walter, 1845-1915

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Walter Crane was born in Liverpool on 15 Aug 1845, second son of the portrait painter Thomas Crane and his wife Marie née Kearsley. The family moved first to Torquay, and in 1857 to London. From 1859-62 Crane was apprenticed to the wood engraver William James Linton, although he studied painting at the same time. In 1862 his painting 'The Lady of Shalott' was accepted by the Royal Academy. By the mid-1860s, Crane was illustrating children's books including coloured picture books desi...

Dell, Robert, 1865-1940

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Born 1865; joined Fabian Society, 1889; received into the Roman Catholic Church, 1897; Editor, Surrey Mirror , 1892-1900; Editor, Review of the Week , 1900-1902; Acting Editor, The Connoisseur , 1902-[1906]; settled in Paris as a journalist and picture dealer, 1906, where he remained throughout the war; Paris correspondent, Manchester Guardian ; expelled from France, 1918; Foreign correspondent for the Manchester Guardian and other newspapers in Geneva, 1920-1921, Berlin, 1922-1924, Paris, 1925-...