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 242235.20
Summary
Loose sheet from the manuscript dummy HIL.R.34 containing a pencil-written rhyme and a pencil illustration of a mother mouse who has caught a small mouse by the tail and is whipping it with a broom. This is a continuation of rhyme HIL.R.34.18. This sheet was slipped in between pages 32 and 33 of the dummy book. That little/ Old Woman/ Was surely/ A mouse! See also HIL.R.34, the dummy book; HIL.R.34.1 - HIL.R.34.19 and HIL.R.34.21 - HIL.R.34.49, further rhymes and illustrations.
Makers and roles
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943), writer