Randolph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway and Walter Crane are often described as forming a triumvirate of great British illustrators of children’s picture books in the late Victorian period. At a recent Discover Special Collections program at the Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books, the focus was on Walter Crane. Born in 1845, Walter Crane was the son of Thomas…
Curator’s Choice: Cinderella
Cinderella is, without a doubt, one of the best known fairy tales and the version by Charles Perrault, first published in 1697, in Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé is the most popular. From Walt Disney’s animated film version of Cinderella (1950) to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s Broadway musical of Cinderella (1957) to last year’s live-action production of Cinderella, directed by Kenneth…
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