A Day in a Child's Life

Kate Greenaway|Edmund Evans|George Routledge & Sons, London|Myles Birket Foster

[1881] · Illustrations: color wood engraving · Drawings and Prints

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.

Artist

Kate Greenaway|Edmund Evans|George Routledge & Sons, London|Myles Birket Foster

Date

[1881]

Medium

Illustrations: color wood engraving

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. John Barry Ryan, transferred from the Library