Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Kate Greenaway - part 11

Kate Greenaway (Catherine Greenaway) (1846-1901) was a children's book illustrator and writer. Her first book, Under the Window (1879), a collection of simple, perfectly idyllic verses concerning children who endlessly gathered posies, untouched by the Industrial Revolution, was a best-seller. The Kate Greenaway Medal, established in her honour in 1955, is awarded annually by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in the UK to an illustrator of children's books. New techniques of photolithography enabled her delicate watercolours to be reproduced. Through the 1880s and 90s, in popularity her only rivals in the field of children's book illustration were Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott, himself also the eponym of a highly-regarded prize medal.

Part 11 of a 13-part series on the works of Kate Greenaway.

For more biographical information see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 2 - 10 also.

1889 Almanack (March missing):

Front Cover

Frontispiece

Vignette

January

February

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

1889 Kate Greenaway's Book of Games:

Front Cover

Frontispiece: Puss in the Corner


Title Page

Tops.

See-Saw.

Marbles.

Touch Wood.


Battledore & Shuttlecock.

Hunt the Slipper.

Mulberry Bush.

Tom Tiddler's Ground.

Hop Scotch.

Oranges and Lemons.

Hoops.

Frog in the Middle.

Swings.

Hide-and-Seek.

Blind Man's Buff.

Soap Bubbles.

Follow-my-Leader.

Kites.

Dolls.

Ball.

Mary's gone A-Milking.

Queen Anne and her Maids.

Skipping.

1890 Almanack:

Front Cover

Frontispiece

Vignette

January.

February.

March.

April.

May.

June.

July.

August.

September.

October.

November.

December.



No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.