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Art Institute of Chicago

24,156 works

Watercolor of two little girls in fur-trimmed winter coats and bonnets, one in blue and one in cream, on a tan mount.

Two Little Girls in Fur-Trimmed Coats

Kate Greenaway, 1900

Watercolor of a woman in a flower garland leaning at a lattice window framed by roses and vines.

Woman at Lattice Window

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Watercolor of a seated girl in a blue-dotted dress beside primroses, framed by bare branches and distant hills.

Seated Girl with Primroses

Kate Greenaway, 1886

Watercolor of a woman with a broom and a little girl beside a basket under a tree with autumn leaves.

Woman with Broom and Little Girl

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Pen drawing of two women with climbing roses framing the name Hannah Jane Locker Lampson and the date 1898.

Hannah Jane Locker Lampson

Kate Greenaway, 1898

Watercolor of a girl leaning by an apple tree while a boy in a straw hat picks apples into a bucket.

Girl and Boy Picking Apples

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a woman with a laundry basket holding hands with a small child in a bonnet.

Woman with Child

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Pen drawing of children in bonnets playing near a cottage and apple tree, with a cat and a central verse by Austin Dobson.

Study for Home-Beauty

Kate Greenaway, c. 1883

Watercolor study of two girls in bonnets on steps and in a doorway, with daffodils and handwritten verse on the page.

Study for From Wonder World, from Marigold Garden

Kate Greenaway, 1885

Young Girl with Blue Ribbons

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Watercolor study of three girls in bonnets walking past terracotta pots, with a pink flower sprig and handwritten rhyme below

Study for Tip a Toe, from Marigold Garden

Kate Greenaway, 1885

Self-Portrait

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a girl with a flower basket and a boy in a straw hat walking a small dog.

Two Children with Dog

Kate Greenaway, 1883

Girl with Cat

Kate Greenaway, 1883

Two young girls in white dresses and bonnets sit in a grassy meadow with dandelions, one in a yellow hat with blue ribbons, o

Two Little Girls with Bonnets

Kate Greenaway, 1883

Pencil sketch of a seated girl in a bonnet and long coat holding a large muff.

Seated Girl with Muff

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Watercolor of a girl in a green dress carrying a basket of eggs past geese and a white dog on a cobbled street.

Girl with Eggs and Geese

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Watercolor of a curly-haired boy in a blue cap and dark suit seated on a beach with waves behind him.

Eddie at the Seashore

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Hand-colored print of four pink tulips with blue-green leaves, above a printed list of plant names and their meanings.

Decorative Illustration, from The Illuminated Language of Flowers

probably Edmund Evans, published 1884

Hand-colored print of a honeysuckle-like flowering branch with green leaves, above a printed list of flower meanings.

Valerian Through Volkamenia, from The Illuminated Language of Flowers

probably Edmund Evans, published 1884

Pencil sketch of two bonneted figures walking with a small dog past flowers, a picket fence, and a cottage.

Two Figures Walking

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a child holding a bird's nest beside an adult in a bonnet, under bare branches and a wooden fence.

Discovery of Bird's Nest

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a seated woman with several children gathered around her in an interior room.

Group of Children

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Watercolor sketch of children and young women in period dress dancing on a sandy beach, one playing a trumpet and another rin

Children Playing on the Beach

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Watercolor of young women in white gowns pulling ribbons in a parlor, with onlookers and overturned furniture around them.

Frightful Result

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Pencil and watercolor drawing of women and children in period dress carrying yellow flowers and dancing across a grassy field

Welcome Once Again

Kate Greenaway, 1884

Handwritten letter dated 11 July 1881 addressed to Miss Greenaway, with a red Wybournes, Kemsing letterhead.

Letter to Kate Greenaway

Randolph Caldecott, 1881

Watercolor interior scene of women in period dress gathered around an infant, with a man peeking from a doorway.

It's Papa Can't Bear it Out of His Sight

Randolph Caldecott, 1872

Pen and ink sketch of a horse stopping sharply in front of a fence while riders follow across an open field.

A Check

Randolph Caldecott, 1869

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a grey koala clinging to a green eucalyptus branch, labeled Koala, on a sketchbook page.

Sketchbook

George Cruikshank, n.d.