A preliminary sketch for the title page of 'The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle', 1905: Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle at her washtub

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Helen Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
A preliminary sketch for the title page of 'The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle', 1905: Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle at her washtub
inscribed 'original drawing by Beatrix Potter of/Mrs Tiggy-Winkle presented to/Frederick Ashton by Harold [sic] Linder/on the occasion of the making of the/film 'Tales of Beatrix Potter'/Frederick Ashton/1971' (on the reverse)
pencil
5 x 7 in. (12.6 x 17.7 cm.)

Provenance

Leslie Linder.
Sir Frederick Ashton; Boardman Fine Art Auctioneers, Clare, Suffolk, 30 June 1993: Auction of the contents of Chandos Lodge, home of Sir Frederick Ashton.

Literature

Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, published by Frederick Warne, 1905, see title page.

Exhibited

London, Beatrix Potter, Artist and Illustrator Exhibition, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 12 October, 2005 - 22 January, 2006, p. 112.

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Lot Essay

A memento of the collaboration between Leslie Linder, the 'celebrated' Potter scholar and collector, and Frederick Ashton, who had choreographed the ballet and created the part of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. He charmingly re-enacted her dance at the opening of the Beatrix Potter Exhibition at Penshurst Place, Kent in June 1971. Ashton had not yet been knighted in 1971.

Christie's are grateful to Anne Stevenson Hobbs for her help in preparing this catalogue entry.

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