Frieze for the Drawing Room at Pownall Hall, Wilmslow, Cheshire

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Date: 1900
Dimensions: 153 x 92
Object Type: oil
Material: oil on canvas
Catalogue number: O110
Artist: Crane, Walter, 1845, 1915
Credit notes: Transfer, 1964

The painting was done at the time of the Boer War of 1900 of which Crane was a bitter opponent, and when the Fabians failed to oppose the war, Crane along with other members including Ramsay Macdonald resigned from the Fabian Society. The alternative title, A Stranger, was intended to symbolise the estrangement of peace from the world. A similar figure, presenting olive branches to two wounded combatants, appears in Crane’s cartoon to commemorate the ending of the Boer War, published in the Daily News, 2 June 1902.

Material: oil on canvas

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