File:Walter Crane - Plato meditating before the grave of his teacher, Socrates.jpg

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Walter Crane  (–1915)  wikidata:Q660917 s:en:Author:Walter Crane
 
Walter Crane
Description British painter, illustrator, drawer and visual artist
Date of birth/death 15 August 1845 / 1848 Edit this at Wikidata 14 March 1915 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Liverpool Horsham
Work period 1859 Edit this at Wikidata–1915 Edit this at Wikidata
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Liverpool, London
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creator QS:P170,Q660917
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English: Plato meditating on immortality before Socrates, the butterfly, skull and poppy, about 400BC.

Signed with a monogram and dated CVV [with a crane] / 84 in grey ink at the lower right.

A study for a wood engraving of 1889, which also appeared as an illustration in an advertisement for the effervescent compound Eno’s ‘Fruit Salt’ in The Graphic of 3 February 1894, captioned ‘Socrates Meditating on Immortality before Socrates, the Butterfly, Skull, and Poppy, about

400 B.C.’. A similar advertisement for the same product that appeared in 1892 likewise used the same illustration. referencereference
Date 1884
date QS:P571,+1884-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source/Photographer https://www.stephenongpin.com/object/806073/0/walter-crane-liverpool-1845-horsham
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