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Kate Greenaway
1846-1901
A Thousand Guilders! The Mayor looked blue; So did the Corporation too
1880s
Pen and black ink, with watercolor, on paper.
9 3/4 x 8 3/16 inches (246 x 208 mm)
Gift of Mrs. Frank V. Snyder.
1976.5
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Preparatory design for Robert Browning, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", London, Warne, 1887, 22.
Inscription:
Signed with initials in pen and black ink at lower left, "KG".
Provenance:
Junius S. Morgan; J. Pierpont Morgan; J.P. Morgan; Frances Morgan Pennoyer (Mrs. Paul G. Pennoyer); her daughter, Mrs. Frank V. Snyder.
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.
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