Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1904 - 1905
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Measurements
200 x 157 mm; 1 sheet (Extent)
Order this imageCollection
Beatrix Potter Gallery, Cumbria
NT 242235.18
Summary
Loose sheet from the manuscript dummy HIL.R.34 containing a pencil-written rhyme and a pencil illustration of dancing mice, contained within a rectangular border design of climbing mice. See HIL.R.34.17, an illustration for this rhyme. This sheet was slipped in between pages 30 and 31 of the dummy book. You know thw old woman/ Who lived in a shoe/ And had so many children/ She didn't know what to do? See also HIL.R.34, the dummy book; HIL.R.34.1 - HIL.R.34.17 and HIL.R.34.19 - HIL.R.34.49, further rhymes and illustrations.
Makers and roles
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943), writer