Two Original Graphite, Ink and Watercolor Drawings by Kate Greenaway, Published in Her Book "Under the Window"

Greenaway, Kate

Published by George Routledge & Sons, London, 1878

About this Item

Greenaway, Kate. Two Original Graphite, Ink and Watercolor Drawings by Kate Greenaway, Published in Her Book "Under the Window." London: George Routledge & Sons, [1878]. Two beautiful watercolor drawings, each measuring approximately 9" x 7-1/2" (7-5/8" x 5-1/2" sight) and matted to 14" x 11"; both drawings signed "K.G." to left of drawing. The first drawing features five small children walking down a village road, and illustrates the poem beginning "You are going out to tea to-day, So mind how you behave; Let all accounts I have of you Be pleasant ones, I crave." from p. 31 of the first edition of the book. The second drawing features a young lady walking across the tiled rooftops of an unnamed town, and illustrates the poem beginning "What is the way to Somewhere Town? Oh, up in the morning early; Over the tiles and the chimney-pots, That is the way, quite clearly." from p. 38 of the same. The condition of the first drawing is NEAR FINE with two short closed tears to bottom margin and a chip to bottom left corner, all confined to the margins and under the mat. The condition of the second drawing is FINE. Sold with a FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE [Schuster & Engen 201: 1) a] copy of "Greenaway, Kate. Under the Window. Pictures and Rhymes for Children. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1878]" in FINE condition where both of the drawings were originally published. This is a wonderful and unique offering of two large-scale, original watercolor drawings by Kate Greenaway that were published in the first book that she both wrote and illustrated, the work that would firmly establish her reputation as one of the preeminent children's book illustrators of the Victorian era, along with a FINE copy of that book.

Seller Inventory # 001005

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Two Original Graphite, Ink and Watercolor Drawings by Kate Greenaway, Published in Her Book "Under the Window"
• Publisher: George Routledge & Sons, London
• Publication Date: 1878
• Language: English
• Binding: No Binding
• Illustrator: Greenaway, Kate
• Condition: Fine
• Weight: 694 grams
• Signed: Signed by Illustrator(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Original Artwork