Now All of You Come Listen

Maker Kate Greenaway (British, 1846-1901)

ClassificationsDRAWINGS

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Mediumwatercolor and graphite pencil on wove paper

Dimensionsimage: 8 9/16 × 5 3/8 in. (21.7 × 13.7 cm.) sheet: 11 × 7 1/2 in. (27.9 × 19.1 cm.) mat: 19 x 12 1/2 in. (48.3 x 31.8 cm.)

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Label TextGreenaway helped transform children’s literature of the Victorian age through her innovative and artistic approach. This drawing is a preliminary design for her first book, Under the Window, which established the style for which she became known. It features imagery that evokes a time far removed from the industrial age in which she lived. Figures dressed in old-fashioned bonnets and ruffles and a soft rosy-green palette lend a dreamlike quality. Here, three children scamper along a path toward a green garden gate set in the middle of a flowering hedge. The image is accompanied by a droll and somewhat nonsensical verse, its lines following the curve of the garden path (2022).

Status

Not on view

Object number91.239

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