Archive of drawings, diaries, notebooks, photographs and press cuttings

Item author: Walter Crane
Item date: late 19th and early 20th century
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 376,475
Item date acquired: 2002
Item institution: Whitworth Art Gallery
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire

The most important archive of material relating to Walter Crane in existence. The artistic and design material is to be held at the Whitworth Art Gallery, the letters, account books and correspondence at the John Ryland s Library. Contains a wealth of material on this most imporant and influential British designer and artist, who was director of design at the Manchester School of Art during the 1890s. Illustrated at p. 53 of AR