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.

And out of the houses rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brown rats

Kate Greenaway
1846-1901

And out of the houses rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brown rats

1880s
8 7/8 x 7 15/16 inches (225 x 201 mm)
Pen and black ink, with watercolor, on paper.
1974.13

Gift of anonymous donor.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Preparatory design for Robert Browning, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", London, Warne, 1887, 18.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed with initials at left center, "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.
Schilling, Jessie G., former owner.
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. Pied piper of Hamelin.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 168.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department