The Spirit of the Age (c.1899)

William Morris Gallery, London Borough of Waltham Forest | ©

Details

Date: c.1899
Object Type: watercolour
Material: watercolour on paper
Catalogue number: W185
Artist: Crane, Walter, 1845, 1915
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1970

Design for a costume of one of the characters in the masque ‘Beauty’s Awakening: a Masque of Winter and of Spring’ presented by members of the Art Workers Guild and performed in the Guildhall, London June 1899. The part of The Spirit of the Age was taken by Stacy J. Aumonier, who spoke the epilogue. For a copy of the published programme see K478a.