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POTTER, Beatrix
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
initial signed "H.B.P." (lower right)
watercolor and ink on paper, matted and framed
6½ x 4 in. (163 x 102 mm), sheet size
This fine drawing probably dates from 1893-94, when she was selling some of her drawings to Ernest Nister, according to an autograph letter from Leslie Linder regarding this drawing (included). It was Nister's firm that published Potter's first drawings. Later this drawing was redrawn and used on p.36 of Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes (London, 1917).
[With:] POTTER, Beatrix. Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes. London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1917]. 12o. Title vignette and 15 color illustrations. Original light green paper boards, upper cover and spine lettered in reddish-brown, upper cover with inset color pictorial label, color pictorial endpaper (Linder 11 [double-page design at front] and 12 [double-page design at rear]). FIRST EDITION, printed in either October or November 1917. Quinby 23 (2); Linder, p. 430; V & A 1532 and 1533. A fine copy. [With:] A porcelain figure of The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe by Royal Albert (1989, 3¼" tall). (3)
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
initial signed "H.B.P." (lower right)
watercolor and ink on paper, matted and framed
6½ x 4 in. (163 x 102 mm), sheet size
This fine drawing probably dates from 1893-94, when she was selling some of her drawings to Ernest Nister, according to an autograph letter from Leslie Linder regarding this drawing (included). It was Nister's firm that published Potter's first drawings. Later this drawing was redrawn and used on p.36 of Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes (London, 1917).
[With:] POTTER, Beatrix. Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes. London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1917]. 12