Kate Greenaway (Catherine Greenaway) (1846-1901) was a children’s book illustrator and writer. Her first publication, Under the Window (1879 ), a collection of simple, flawlessly idyllic knowledgeables concerning children who constantly collected posies, unblemished by the Industrial Revolution, was a best-seller. The Kate Greenaway Medal, established in her honour in 1955, is granted each year by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in the UK to an illustrator of youngsters’s publications. New strategies of photolithography allowed her delicate watercolours to be reproduced. With the 1880s and 90s, in popularity her only opponents in the field of youngsters’s book image were Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott, himself also the eponym of a highly-regarded reward medal.Part 8 of a 13-part collection on the worksof Kate Greenaway.For a lot more biographical information see component 1, and for earlier works see components2-7. 1885 Kate Greenaway’s Birthday Book for Children (continued from component 7 ):
Kate Greenaway – part 8
