THE WORKS OF BEATRIX POTTER
The following 6 lots were originally given by Beatrix Potter to the Townley family. Charles Joseph Marshall Townley or 'Farmer Townley' owned "Hard Cragg" in Grange-Over-Sand, Lancashire, where Potter was known to have executed many of her sketches for her Tales. She was to dedicate The Tale of Pigling-Bland to Townley's children, Charlie and Cicely. In appreciation of the Townley's kindness to her she gave them this standard table set of 12 silk doillies, decorated with original drawings representing the front cover and the first eleven illustrations of The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. Mrs. Townley later gave the set to the present vendor's mother in 1913/14.
We are grateful to Anne Hobbs and Elizabeth Booth for their help in the cataloguing of these lots.
Helen Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
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Helen Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
"One morning a little rabbit sat on a bank. Mr. McGregor, and his wife passed by;" and "Benjamin pricked his ears and listened to the trit-trot, trit-trot of a pony"
with captions in another hand; pen and ink and watercolour heightened in white, on silk.
4¾ x 4¾in. (11½ x 11½cm.)
See back cover illustration
(2)
"One morning a little rabbit sat on a bank. Mr. McGregor, and his wife passed by;" and "Benjamin pricked his ears and listened to the trit-trot, trit-trot of a pony"
with captions in another hand; pen and ink and watercolour heightened in white, on silk.
4¾ x 4¾in. (11½ x 11½cm.)
See back cover illustration
(2)
Literature
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1904. Front cover illustration and page 8.