Young girls having a tea party by Kate Greenaway 1880
Illustration from Kate Greenaways's Birthday book for children 1st edition 1880. Info from Wiki: "Kate Greenaway" children, all of them little girls and boys too young to be put in trousers, were dressed in her own versions of late eighteenth century and Regency fashions: smock-frocks and skeleton suits for boys, high-waisted pinafores and dresses with mobcaps and straw bonnets for girls. Liberty of London adapted Kate Greenaway's drawings as designs for actual children's clothes. A full generation of mothers in the liberal-minded "artistic" British circles who called themselves "The Souls" and embraced the Arts and Crafts movement dressed their daughters in Kate Greenaway pantaloons and bonnets in the 1880s and 1890s. Greenaway's paintings were reproduced by chromoxylography, by which the colours were printed from hand-engraved wood blocks by the firm of Edmund Evans. Greenaway died of breast cancer in 1901, at the age of 55.
Size: 3000px × 3028px
Location: England, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © Historical Images Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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