Greenaway, Kate

Bonnets, flowing dresses and children in gardens make up the unmistakable world of these prints by Kate Greenaway (1846–1901...

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Bonnets, flowing dresses and children in gardens make up the unmistakable world of these prints by Kate Greenaway (1846–1901), the British illustrator and writer whose children's books, verses and greeting cards drew on earlier fashions and an idealised country childhood. In works such as Under the Window she joined her own writing to her pictures, and Edmund Evans helped turn her designs into colour-printed books. These reproductions were issued in 1905 and include material gathered for Spielmann and Layard's illustrated biography, so early sketches and pencil studies sit beside nursery scenes, portraits, literary subjects and decorative designs, together with views of her home and studio at Frognal.

Bonnets, flowing dresses and children in gardens make up the unmistakable world of these prints by Kate Greenaway (1846–1901), the British illustrator and writer whose children's books, verses and greeting cards drew on earlier fashions and an idealised country childhood. In works such as Under the Window she joined her own writing to her pictures, and Edmund Evans helped turn her designs into colour-printed books. These reproductions were issued in 1905 and include material gathered for Spielmann and Layard's illustrated biography, so early sketches and pencil studies sit beside nursery scenes, portraits, literary subjects and decorative designs, together with views of her home and studio at Frognal.

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