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1908

  • Work on this object began.

2025

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Book, Line and Form, 1908

This is a Book. It was written by Walter Crane and published by G. Bell and Sons. It is dated 1908. Its medium is lithograph on paper. It is a part of the department.


Line and Form was based on a series of lectures that Crane delivered to students at the Manchester Municipal School of Art. As Crane explained in the preface, “they were illustrated largely by means of rough sketching in line before my student audience, as well as by photographs and drawings.” Here, Crane shows the visual relationship between the movement of a dancing fairy figure and the upward growth of a lily and a rose.

It is credited Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, NC710 .C89.

Its dimensions are

H x W (open): 19.5 × 28 cm (7 11/16 in. × 11 in.)

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