[A fairy] [graphic] / [Kate Greenaway].
1895
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Title
[A fairy] [graphic] / [Kate Greenaway].
Created/published
1895.
Description
1 item : pencil ; 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 in., 8.6 x 6 cm
Material base
paper
Note
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On wove stationary paper, watermark; Academic CC & S London. Drawn onto the page of a letter, dated Christmas day, 1895. Letter is signed, sketch is not.
History: Drawing is sketched onto the page of a letter from Greenaway to Lady Maria Ponsonby thanking her for sending an edition of Shakespeare's Midsummer night's dream, illustrated by Robert Anning Bell. She writes of it, 'I differ from Mr. Anning Bell in some ways - but some of the pictures I like immensely. The Midsummer night's dream was one of the First Plays I ever saw ... the Fairies I saw were like this [ink sketch of a fairy] It is Frightfully difficult to draw a Fairy because you Feel they ought to be different to ordinary people ...' The pencil sketch is on the half page facing this letter and in the text of the letter, as noted above is a brief sketch of another fairy.
Subject: Pencil sketch shows a full length, standing fairy, facing profile to left, wearing a flowing gown with wings on her back.
Provenance: Letter was purchased by the Folgers from New York rare book dealer Alwin J. Scheuer, Jan. 2, 1929 Case 1864.
On wove stationary paper, watermark; Academic CC & S London. Drawn onto the page of a letter, dated Christmas day, 1895. Letter is signed, sketch is not.
History: Drawing is sketched onto the page of a letter from Greenaway to Lady Maria Ponsonby thanking her for sending an edition of Shakespeare's Midsummer night's dream, illustrated by Robert Anning Bell. She writes of it, 'I differ from Mr. Anning Bell in some ways - but some of the pictures I like immensely. The Midsummer night's dream was one of the First Plays I ever saw ... the Fairies I saw were like this [ink sketch of a fairy] It is Frightfully difficult to draw a Fairy because you Feel they ought to be different to ordinary people ...' The pencil sketch is on the half page facing this letter and in the text of the letter, as noted above is a brief sketch of another fairy.
Subject: Pencil sketch shows a full length, standing fairy, facing profile to left, wearing a flowing gown with wings on her back.
Provenance: Letter was purchased by the Folgers from New York rare book dealer Alwin J. Scheuer, Jan. 2, 1929 Case 1864.
Item Details
Call number
Y.c.1093 (1)