Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

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A girl wearing a hat and a haughty air stands in the forefront of a hedged garden with flower beds

Mary, Mary, quite contrary.

(P. 26.)

Artist

Name:: Greenaway, Kate
Dates:: 1846-1901
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: People
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Engraver:: Evans, Edmund
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: University of California Libraries, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Mother Goose: or, The old nursery rhymes
Author:: Anonymous
Publisher:: London, New York: George Routledge and Sons, n.d.
Open Library:: View record

Description:

A girl wearing a hat and a haughty air is seen in profile standing at the forefront of a hedged garden, with a row of potted shrubs and flower beds behind her. The rhyme goes as follows:

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells, and cockle shells,
And cowslips all of a row.

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