Kate Greenaway (Catherine Greenaway) (1846-1901) was a children’s publication illustrator and writer. Her very first publication, Under the Window (1879 ), a collection of easy, perfectly picturesque verses worrying youngsters that endlessly gathered posies, unblemished by the Industrial Revolution, was a hot seller. The Kate Greenaway Medal, established in her honour in 1955, is granted yearly by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in the UK to an illustrator of children’s books. New techniques of photolithography allowed her delicate watercolours to be recreated. With the 90s and 1880s, in popularity her only competitors in the area of children’s publication illustration were Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott, himself also the eponym of a highly-regarded prize medal.Part 7 of a 13-part collection on the jobsof Kate Greenaway.For extra biographical information see part 1, and for earlier jobs see components2-6. 1885 Kate Greenaway’s Birthday Book for Children:
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