Helen Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)

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Helen Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)

"Little Benjamin said 'It spoils people's clothes to squeeze under a gate: the proper way to get in, is to climb down a pear tree;'" and "It had been sown with lettuces. They left a great many odd little foot-marks all over the bed"
with captions in another hand; pen and ink and watercolour heightened in white, on silk.
4¾ x 4¾in. (11½ x 11½cm.)
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Literature

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1904. Pages 32 and 35.

Lot Essay

Potter did the majority of the background sketches for these illustrations in the gardens of a large country house named Fawe Park, near Keswick. The pear tree illustrated above is directly taken from the pear tree at Fawe Park. [The History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, Leslie Linder, p. 144].

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