Legends for Lionel : in pen and pencil
Legends for Lionel is an 1887 children's picture book by Walter Crane, published by Cassell in London, Paris, New York and Melbourne, and dedicated to his young nephew Lionel. The pictures are colour-washed pen-and-pencil scenes with short rhyming captions, showing figures such as a cloaked old woman, a fierce frost herald and a boy by a fireside. A designer might take from them the loose, outlined figures, muted earth-toned washes and hand-lettered captions that give a playful folk-tale feel.
