



Kate Greenaway: the Private Collection of the late Thomas Schuster
Lot 179
GREENAWAY (KATE) Album containing 67 drawings, c.1880-1890
23 March 2022, 14:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£6,000 - £10,000
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GREENAWAY (KATE)
Album containing 67 drawings, including 44 by Greenaway, 13 possibly by her and 10 executed in her style, mostly of children but with some studies of flowers, fruit, leaves and other subjects, pencil and 20 with watercolour, various sizes (285 x 211mm. to 36 x 33mm.), mounted one to five per mount on 20 leaves, green crushed morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, upper cover gilt-lettered, g.e., covers faded and slightly spotted, lower cover slightly scratched, solander box, 4to (331 x 307mm.), c.1880-1890
Footnotes
Provenance: Doris Louise Benz (1907-1984), bookplate dated 1929; The Property of The Doris L. Benz Trust sold for the benefit of Dartmouth College Library, Christie's New York, 16 November 1984, lot 155; Frederick R. Koch Foundation; their sale, Christie's, New York, 7 June 1990, lot 56.