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A Day in a Child's Life

[1881]
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The daughter of an engraver, Greenaway trained at the Slade School of Fine Art in London and began her career as a designer of greeting cards. Like her contemporary Walter Crane, she collaborated with the engraver Evans to publish children’s books in color, which achieved great commercial success. She produced an idealized and nostalgic image of rural childhood, dressing the children she illustrated in an eighteenth-century style that in turn became fashionable for children of her day.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: A Day in a Child's Life
  • Illustrator: Kate Greenaway (British, London 1846–1901 London)
  • Engraver: Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans (British, Southwark, London 1826–1905 Ventnor, Isle of Wight)
  • Publisher: George Routledge & Sons, London
  • Author: Music by Myles Birket Foster (British, North Shields, Northumberland 1825–1899 Weybridge, Surrey)
  • Published in: London
  • Date: [1881]
  • Medium: Illustrations: color wood engraving
  • Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (24.8 x 21.6 cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. John Barry Ryan, transferred from the Library
  • Object Number: 1983.1223.1
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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