Word: caldecotte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fine art is closely connected with book illustration, and Mr. Hofer is adding important examples of the best work in this line, from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. In the nineteenth century, there was a brilliant period, when books were being illustrated by Kate Green-away, Randolph Caldecott, Sir John Tenniel and Walter Crane. The Widener collection brought to Harvard a good assemblage of Miss Greenaway's work, while Tenniel is very well represented in the Lewis Carroll collection made by Harcourt Amory, '76, and given in his memory by Mrs. Amory and their children. The other two, Crane...
Approximately 100 original drawings by Walter Crane which were used for the illustrations in two of his books have recently been given to the Treasure Room of Widener Library by A. H. Parker '97. These drawings are supplementary to a group of books and pictures by Crane and by Caldecott that Mr. Parker gave to the University last fall...
...Robert Seymour drawing, dated 1836, picturing one of the earliest balloons; several children's books containing rare samples of the work of Caldecott, the famous English illustrator, and an eighteenth century "Twelfth Night," illustrated by George Cruikshank, are among the most interesting features of the exhibition...