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Lilac, first emotions of love
-Kate Greenaway, Language of flowers

Hanahaki disease! Damijon

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2023-03-18

English artist & author Kate Greenaway, best known for her children's books, was born in 1846. Her work was as popular as her male contemporaries, Walter Crane & Ralph Caldecott. Her art depicted the innocence of childhood.

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2023-03-18

Happy FairyFriday 🙋‍♀️💜🕊

The Elf Ring ~ Kate Greenaway, English, 17th March 1846

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2023-03-17

"How different everything is when you are with the right people!"

🎨✒️ English author and illustrator, was 17 March 1846.

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2023-03-17

A young girl dressed up for Christmas, wearing a fur coat and muff and carrying a holly branch, 1901, by Kate Greenaway, an English Victorian artist and writer, known for her children's book illustrations.

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2022-11-28


Illustrations for Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Kate Greenaway (1846-1901.) Note the 18th century costumes in a Queen Anne style, so beloved by Greenaway, and known as the Kate Greenaway style.

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2022-09-25

English artist & illustrator Walter Crane died in 1915. He was part of the Arts & Crafts movement. Along with Randolph Caldecott & Kate Greenaway, his work had a huge impact on the illustrations of children's literature.

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2022-03-18

"Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything"

Kate Greenaway, artist & children's illustrator extraordinaire, born 1846.

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2022-03-17

Kate Greenaway, illustrazione per “Il pifferaio magico”, 1868.

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2021-11-10

¿Todavía no empezaron a dibujar hoy?
Kate Greenaway, R.I. (1846-1901)
The garland

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2021-09-04

In Wales, changelings were known as crimbals. One story is of Dazzy Walters in Ebbw Vale who woke up just as her baby was being stolen, but managed to hold onto its foot before the fairies disappeared with it. 🧚🏼‍♀️



🎨 Kate Greenaway, April Baby Hush-a-bye, Baby.

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2021-05-14

"I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced & sold for advertisements & done in ways I hate."

Artist & children's book illustrator Kate Greenaway, born 1846.

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2021-03-17

Here’s to a fresh month & Happy Feb 1st. ☺️I love these vintage calendars below: we have two golfers in their tweeds working on their short game in the snow 😂, & two by the late, great Kate Greenaway, circa 1880-90s. ❤️

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2021-02-02

"How different everything is when you are with the right people!"

Artist & writer Kate Greenaway, who died 1901. The Kate Greenaway Medal (for children's book illustration) was established in her honour in 1955, now conferred by .

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2020-11-06

More images from "A Apple Pie" (1890) by Kate Greenaway, illustrated by Edmund Evans.

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2020-05-27

A Apple Pie (1890) by Kate Greenaway, illustrated by Edmund Evans.

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2020-05-27

"A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife."

Artist & writer Kate Greenaway, born 1846; she is remembered for her wonderful literary art.

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2020-03-17

“Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling”
Kate Greenaway, one of the most popular children’s book illustrators of the 19th century, was born this day in 1846. Her idyllic and enchanting illustrations remain popular today.

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2020-03-16