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Walter Crane

Illustration for Louise Michel’s International School by Walter Crane. At the time, he was one of the foremost graphic artists, wrote books about design, directed two of the oldest design courses at the Manchester Municipal School and Royal College of Art.

He collaborated with William Morris, who converted him to socialism. I’m reading his biography as research for an upcoming essay. He knew many of the most important left activists of the time — Michel and Morris, obviously, but also Piotr Kropotkine, Eleanor Marx, and George Bernard Shaw.

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    Jean Jacques Méric

    thank you very much for sharing this. Up to now I thought this cover had been designed by Achille Vauvelle, lithographer, the brother of Charlotte Vauvelle who lived with Louise Michel (my current research is on Charlotte). Achille later settled and married in the UK and worked with Waddingyons in Leeds. If you have more information on him, please share !

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      Monumentanea

      I don’t have any information on Vauvelle. The information about the cover came from Crane’s autobiographical book «An Artist’s Remininiscences». It has two or three pages about his encounter with Michel. I checked that passage and the comprehensive index of people Crane met and, as far as i can say, there is no mention of Vauvelle. Sorry.

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