Lot 56
  • 56

Greenaway, Kate

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

  • paper with watercolor or pencil
A good group of 9 watercolor and pencil drawings and 8 prints, including prints extracted from Queen Victoria's Jubilee Garland (1887), various dimensions,  the prints matted, the drawings matted, glazed, and framed.

Full-length pencil portrait of a young girl in profile, probably of Catherine Dadd (her sale, Sotheby's Belgravia, April 1982) — Pencil portrait of a little girl with a hoop; frame chipped at top. — Oval watercolor portrait of a girl wearing a blue sash, holding a ball and looking over her shoulder. — Watercolor and gouache drawing of a woman seated at a tea table ("Cross Patch"; Engen p. 165) — Watercolor drawing of two girls beside a haystack. — Watercolor drawing of two angels carrying a baby. — Pencil drawing on brown paper of a boy with curly hair, matted as a roundel. — Menu with a watercolor drawing of a woman seated with a fan. — Small watercolor drawing of a wistful woman accompanied by a poem about London written in pencil. — 6 matted prints. — Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, disbound and matted.

Provenance

Two Angels:  Sotheby Parke-Bernet (London), 21 October 1983, lot 492

Literature

"Two Girls Beside a Haystack," published in The Language of Flowers, illustrating "Jacob's Ladder."

Condition

A good group of 9 watercolor and pencil drawings and 8 prints, including prints extracted from Queen Victoria's Jubilee Garland (1887), various dimensions, the prints matted, the drawings mattted, glazed, and framed. Full-length pencil portrait of a young girl in profile, probably of Catherine Dadd (her sale, Sotheby's Belgravia, April 1982) — Pencil portrait of a little girl with a hoop; frame chipped at top. — Oval watercolor portrait of a girl wearing a blue sash, holding a ball and looking over her shoulder. — Watercolor and gouache drawing of a woman seated at a tea table ("Cross Patch"; Engen p. 165) — Watercolor drawing of two girls beside a haystack. — Watercolor drawing of two angels carrying a baby. — Pencil drawing on brown paper of a boy with curly hair, matted as a roundel. — Menu with a watercolor drawing of a woman seated with a fan. — Small watercolor drawing of a wistful woman accompanied by a poem about London written in pencil. — 6 matted prints. — Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, disbound and matted.
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