Imre Jakabffy (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 1. (Budapest, 1973)

KOÓS, Judith: Walter Crane and Hungary

10. K.ROZSNYAI: EX LIBRIS FOR CRANE'S WIFE ing on Walter Crane; one of them being his ex libris, made by himself

1, (Fig. 8). Within the C initial, decorated with leanes composed into a square, the stork standing on one foot — the characteristic bird of the artist's mark — as well as an open book of verses and loaf can be seen under a budding bush, with the following lines below: A Book of verses underneath the Bough A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!: Rubriyat of Omar Khayyam: The next two sheets are also bookplates, one of them designed by Crane for Kálmán Rozsnyai

ls (Fig. 9), bearing the artist's mark on the right at the bottom, and the other delineated by Kálmán Rozsnyai for Crane's wife (Fig. 10). On the left of the drawing at the bottom, in Kálmán Rozsnyai's script the words "Mary Frances Andrews Crane (Mrs. Walter Crane)", and on the right at the bottom his mark: "C.V.H. de R." can be found. These inscriptions, however, are missing from the final printed ex libris. Three lilies occupy the rectangular sheet, with the initiale of Crane's wife in the middle, and with the lettering "Her Book" as well as the date "1900", that is the year when Crane's exhibition was organized in Budapest, and he visited Hungary together with his family. A significant document of Crane's stay in Budapest has also remained: the publication of 163