Vintage Walter Crane: Rooster & Pearl Wolf & Lamb Poster

From our Walter Crane Series. From Aesop's fables The Rooster and The Pearl: If he asks for bread will you give him a stone? The Wolf and the Lamb: Fraud and violence have no cruples. Walter Crane (1845–1915) was a famous English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most prolific and influential children’s book creator of his generation and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the latter 19th century. His work featured some of the more colourful and detailed beginnings of the child-in-the-garden motifs that would characterize many nursery rhymes and children's stories for decades to come. He was part of the Arts and Crafts movement and produced an array of paintings, illustrations, children's books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts.