The yellow dwarf
The yellow dwarf is a fairy tale collection of 1875 published in London and New York by George Routledge and Sons, illustrated by Walter Crane from a story by Madame d'Aulnoy for children. Its colour plates show a court setting with a grotesque dwarf in red robes beside turkeys, then a swordfight on a checkered tiled floor under a sunset; a designer might take its flat outlines, bold colour blocks, and patterned tiled floors as a model for decorative storytelling.
