
Kate Greenaway: the Private Collection of the late Thomas Schuster
Lot 186
GREENAWAY (KATE) 'I walked in the lonesome evening', original illustration, "June 1884"
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GREENAWAY (KATE)
'I walked in the lonesome evening', original illustration, pencil with faint watercolour, two-verse pencil caption below, signed with initials and dated lower left, 137 x 235mm., preserved in cloth portfolio, "June 1884"
Footnotes
Greenaway illustrates the poem 'Across the Sea' by William Allingham (1824-1889). She provided several illustrations for his Rhymes for the Young Folk in 1887 but this poem and illustration were not included.
Provenance: Sotheby's, 10 July 2001, lot 592.