Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

With rosy checks and flaxen curls, and sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls

Kate Greenaway
1846-1901

With rosy checks and flaxen curls, and sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls

1880s
8 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches (225 x 186 mm)
Pen and black ink, with watercolor, on paper.
1974.20

Gift of Jane Page and Mark Page.

Notes
Preparatory design for Robert Browning, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", London, Warne, 1887, 36 and 37.
The running children at the lower right are used again for the title page, and the boy in green gown at left appears also on verso of title page, 4.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: none.
Associated names
Morgan, Junius Spencer, 1813-1890, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Nichols, Jane Norton Morgan, 1893-1981, former owner.
Page, Walter H., Mrs., former owner.
Page, Jane, former owner.
Page, Mark, former owner.
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. Pied piper of Hamelin.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 168.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department