
Kate Greenaway: the Private Collection of the late Thomas Schuster
Lot 189
GREENAWAY (KATE) 'This was their favourite amusement', autograph manuscript illustrated with original watercolour, [c.1885]
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GREENAWAY (KATE)
'This was their favourite amusement', autograph manuscript illustrated with original watercolour, initialled "KG" at end", pencil and watercolour drawing with pencil text below, lightly toned, sheet 220 x 210mm., [c.1885]
Footnotes
A charming self-contained story produced for Violet Severn, the daughter of Ruskin's cousin - believed to be unpublished. The image echoes the illustrations for the two poems "On the Wall Top" in Greenaway's Marigold Garden (1885). The present story begins, "This was their favourite amusement - to run backwards and forwards along the wall top", and closes with a list of the children's names: "the last one was called - Violet like yourself".
Provenance: Violet Severn (1880-1940); Hext family of Holywath, Coniston; Hext sale, Tennant's, 8 May 2010, lot 101.