Author: Greenway, Kate (1846-1901)
Title: Autograph Letter from Kate Greenway, to Frederick-Locker-Lampson Written from John Ruskin's House
Description: Brantword. Coniston, Cumbria: 1884. Als. 2pp.15.4x 9.8cm to the poet of "London Lyrics "for which the artist had provided a "Little dinky." .........................In 1878, with the publication of her unpretentious collection of verses and pictures titled Under the Window, Kate Greenaway became a household name. As her chief rival Walter Crane explained, "The grace and charm of her children and young girls were quickly recognized, and her treatment of quaint early nine-teenth-century costume, prim gardens, and the child-like spirit of her designs in an old-world atmosphere, though touched with conscious modern 'aestheticism,' captivated the public in a remarkable way."1 This reclusive spinster suddenly became the confidante of poets and princesses. She was lionized and parodied in the press. Greenaway boys and girls appeared (often without the artist's permission) on porcelain and pewter, on toys and wallpaper. Her simple style of dress, derived in part from the Empire period, became the rage in the late Victorian age, and for once Paris in coining the term Greenawisme looked to London for inspiration in fashion. Being as popular in the New as in the Old World, Kate Greenaway was credited with dressing the children of two continents. This illustrator had no greater champion that John Ruskin, the most influential English art critic of the day. He was enchanted by Under the Window, and he at once wrote her an eccentric letter of great praise: "I lay awake half (no, a quarter) of last night thinking of the hundred things I want to say to you—and never shall get said!—and I'm giddy and weary, and now can't say even half or a quarter of one out of the hundred. They're about you,—and your gifts—and your graces, and your fancies, and your—yes, perhaps one or two little—tiny faults."2 He wanted to know if she believed in fairies, in ghosts, in principalities or powers, in Heaven. "Do you only draw pretty children out of your head?" he persisted. .
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Title: Autograph Letter from Kate Greenway, to Frederick-Locker-Lampson Written from John Ruskin's House
Description: Brantword. Coniston, Cumbria: 1884. Als. 2pp.15.4x 9.8cm to the poet of "London Lyrics "for which the artist had provided a "Little dinky." .........................In 1878, with the publication of her unpretentious collection of verses and pictures titled Under the Window, Kate Greenaway became a household name. As her chief rival Walter Crane explained, "The grace and charm of her children and young girls were quickly recognized, and her treatment of quaint early nine-teenth-century costume, prim gardens, and the child-like spirit of her designs in an old-world atmosphere, though touched with conscious modern 'aestheticism,' captivated the public in a remarkable way."1 This reclusive spinster suddenly became the confidante of poets and princesses. She was lionized and parodied in the press. Greenaway boys and girls appeared (often without the artist's permission) on porcelain and pewter, on toys and wallpaper. Her simple style of dress, derived in part from the Empire period, became the rage in the late Victorian age, and for once Paris in coining the term Greenawisme looked to London for inspiration in fashion. Being as popular in the New as in the Old World, Kate Greenaway was credited with dressing the children of two continents. This illustrator had no greater champion that John Ruskin, the most influential English art critic of the day. He was enchanted by Under the Window, and he at once wrote her an eccentric letter of great praise: "I lay awake half (no, a quarter) of last night thinking of the hundred things I want to say to you—and never shall get said!—and I'm giddy and weary, and now can't say even half or a quarter of one out of the hundred. They're about you,—and your gifts—and your graces, and your fancies, and your—yes, perhaps one or two little—tiny faults."2 He wanted to know if she believed in fairies, in ghosts, in principalities or powers, in Heaven. "Do you only draw pretty children out of your head?" he persisted. .
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Price: US$ 450.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 16-5694
- Book number: 16-5694
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