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Last Name Greenaway

Given Name Kate Catherine °

alt. Names K. C. G. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1846 in London

Year died 1901

Place of death Hampstead, London

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education studied at what is now the Royal College of Art in London, which at that time had a separate section for women, headed by Richard Burchett.

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for Patent transferring Papers, c. 1883, published by Briggs & Co., Manchester with 156 pictures and 6 pages of designs ;

Patronage Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (elected member 1889) ;

Collaborators Greenaway's paintings were reproduced by chromoxylography, by which the colours were printed from hand-engraved wood blocks by the firm of Edmund Evans ;

Techniques technical drawing, painting, and watercolour ;

Sample(s) http://eu.art.com/products/p870854852-sa-i4061423/posters.htm?ui=67F45380BEE643FC91D4306DBE9F68D0 ;

Archival sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Greenaway ; http://ufdc.ufl.edu/juv/results/?t=,,kate+greenaway,&f=ZZ,+TI,+AU,+TO ;

Published sources Baker 1978: 72-84; Clark, Keith. The Bookplate Designs of Kate Greenaway, in The Private Library Autumn 1975, publ. by the Private Libraries Association;

other Mostly known for illustrations of children's books.

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