Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

A Thousand Guilders! The Mayor looked blue; So did the Corporation too

Kate Greenaway
1846-1901

A Thousand Guilders! The Mayor looked blue; So did the Corporation too

1880s
9 3/4 x 8 3/16 inches (246 x 208 mm)
Pen and black ink, with watercolor, on paper.
1976.5

Gift of Mrs. Frank V. Snyder.

Notes
Preparatory design for Robert Browning, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", London, Warne, 1887, 22.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed with initials in pen and black ink at lower left, "KG".
Associated names
Morgan, Junius Spencer, 1813-1890, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Pennoyer, Frances, 1897-1989, former owner.
Snyder, Frank V., Mrs., former owner.
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. Pied piper of Hamelin.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 265-266.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department