Britomart
by CRANE, Walter, Watercolour on paper
Crane’s last outstanding book of illustrations for children was Flora’s Feast (1889). He later worked with William Morris at the Kelmscott Press on wood-engravings for Morris’s The Story of the Glittering Plain (1894) and for Spenser’s ‘The Faerie Queene’ (1894-97); these Gothic images were among his finest works as an illustrator.
The picture shows Crane’s illustration of Spenser’s Faerie Queene. It represents Britomart, a nymph of Greek mythology and the heroine of Book III of The Faerie Queene.