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POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). "Peter was very naughty, he ran straight away to Mr. McGregor's garden, and squeezed under the gate," signed in full by the artist and dated August 1927. Watercolor drawing comprising a redrawing in full color of the black-and-white illustration first published in The Tale of Peter Rabbit (privately printed December 1901). 4½ x 3 1/8 in. ( 114 x 78 mm), sight size. (Some pale mat burn, mounted.) Matted and framed.
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POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). "Peter was very naughty, he ran straight away to Mr. McGregor's garden, and squeezed under the gate," signed in full by the artist and dated August 1927. Watercolor drawing comprising a redrawing in full color of the black-and-white illustration first published in The Tale of Peter Rabbit (privately printed December 1901). 4½ x 3 1/8 in. ( 114 x 78 mm), sight size. (Some pale mat burn, mounted.) Matted and framed.
A delightful Peter Rabbit image, created in 1927 to raise money for the National Trust, and sold in America at Bertha Mahony's Boys & Girls Bookshop in Boston. The design shows Peter, having lost his shoes, running for his life from Mr. McGregor. It appears only in the first two privately printed editions of Peter Rabbit, and not in the regular trade edition published in 1902 (which canceled four images and had all the remaining ones re-done in color). Potter prepared only 50 drawings for charity sale in 1927: re-doing each of the original 42 Peter Rabbit images and then adding 8 drawings from The Tailor of Gloucester.
A delightful Peter Rabbit image, created in 1927 to raise money for the National Trust, and sold in America at Bertha Mahony's Boys & Girls Bookshop in Boston. The design shows Peter, having lost his shoes, running for his life from Mr. McGregor. It appears only in the first two privately printed editions of Peter Rabbit, and not in the regular trade edition published in 1902 (which canceled four images and had all the remaining ones re-done in color). Potter prepared only 50 drawings for charity sale in 1927: re-doing each of the original 42 Peter Rabbit images and then adding 8 drawings from The Tailor of Gloucester.