The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1904
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pencil
Measurements
165 x 105 x 5 mm; 46 pages (Extent)
Order this imageCollection
Beatrix Potter Gallery, Cumbria
NT 242209
Summary
Manuscript of The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher and The Tale of The Pie and The Patty-Pan written in a green exercise book. The text is written in ink with occasional pencil notes. See also HIL.R.5, an earlier version of The Pie and The Patty-Pan. The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher occupies pages 1-13 of the exercise book, plus one loose sheet. There are no illustrations. This story first emerged in a story letter to Eric Moore written in 1893 from Eastwood, Dunkeld; so Jeremy Fisher origiated from the river Tay in Perthshire. In 1894 Beatrix sold to the firm of Ernest Nister a set of 9 drawings which subsequently appeared in one of Nister's children's annuals titled 'A Frog he would a fishing go'; she later bought back the drawings and copyright. The illustrations for the later Warnes version of the story have Esthwaite Water and perhaps Moss Eccles Tarn as the setting. The Tale of The Pie and The Patty-Pan occupies pages 14-39. There are two small pencil drawings of a pie dish and a patty pan on page 14. Pages 43-44 hold a section of text copied from The Tailor of Gloucester titled 'Specimen page'. This was probably copied in order to work out the number of pages of a book of a similar format the manuscript would cover, and the number of illustrations. There is a pencil note, 'Tailor 26 pgs 18 lines against 22 here. 24 1/2 pgs. 9 full pages (counting last. 18 black and white halfpages. 27'.
Makers and roles
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943), writer