Kate Greenaway

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Kate Greenaway

1846-1901

With rosy checks and flaxen curls, and sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls

1880s

Pen and black ink, with watercolor, on paper.

8 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches (225 x 186 mm)

Gift of Jane Page and Mark Page.

1974.20

Notes:

Preparatory design for Robert Browning, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", London, Warne, 1887, 36 and 37.
The running children at the lower right are used again for the title page, and the boy in green gown at left appears also on verso of title page, 4.

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Provenance:

Junius S. Morgan; J. Pierpont Morgan; J.P. Morgan; Jane Morgan Nichols (Mrs. George Nichols); her daughter, Mrs. Walter H. Page; her daughter and son, Jane and Mark Page.

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.
Nichols, Jane Norton Morgan, 1893-1981, former owner.
Page, Walter H., Mrs., former owner.
Page, Jane, former owner.
Page, Mark, former owner.
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. Pied piper of Hamelin.

Bibliography:

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 168.

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