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Rhyming Pictures: Walter Crane and the Art of Reading

Dr Grace Brockington describes the educational, aesthetic and political ideals underpinning Walter Crane’s art, and illustrates his views on the importance of the visual in our first encounter with written language.

• Grace Brockington

The whole article can be downloaded as a PDF file.

Published in British Academy Review, Issue 10, 2007.

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