Kate Greenaway
Victorian children's book illustrator
Catherine Greenaway was an English Victorian artist and writer, known for her children's book illustrations. She received her education in graphic design and art between 1858 and 1871 from South Kensington School of Art and the Royal Female School of Art, and the Slade School of Fine Art. She began her career designing for the burgeoning holiday card market, producing Christmas and Valentine's cards. In 1879 wood-block engraver and printer, Edmund Evans, printed Under the Window, an instant best-seller, which established her reputation. Her collaboration with Evans continued throughout the 1880s and 1890s. The depictions of children in imaginary 18th-century costumes in a Queen Anne style were extremely popular in England and internationally, sparking the Kate Greenaway style. Within a few years of the publication of Under the Window Greenaway's work was imitated in England, Germany and the United States.
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Artworks by this artist (423 total)
- March 1889
- April 1886
- Summer 1897
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin Pl 1 1910
- The Spring is come… 1890
- August 1883
- Child with flowers 1889
- August 1892
- July 1892
- Under the window; pictures & rhymes for children Pl.49 1878
- April 1894
- August 1889
- Child holding a wreath 1891
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin Pl 38 1910
- Be you Foe -or be you Friend… 1886
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin Pl 39 1910
- Autumn 1889
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin Pl 29 1910
- Children sailing boats
- Spring 1891