Kate Greenaway

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Kate Greenaway
1846-1901
M Mourned for It
1880s
Pen and brown ink, with watercolor, over graphite, on paper.
11 x 12 5/8 inches (280 x 320 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Mr. Frederick R. Koch.
1981.69:3
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Watermark: none.
Illustration for "A Apple Pie", London and New York, 1886.

Inscription: 

Signed with monogram at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "KG"; inscribed at top in large capitals, in graphite, now almost totally erased, "M MOURNED FOR IT".

Provenance: 
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 14 October 1981, lot 830, repr.
Associated names: 

Koch, Frederick R. (Frederick Robinson), donor.

Bibliography: 

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 263.

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