Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1904 - 1905
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Watercolour
Measurements
140 x 115 mm; 1 sheet (Extent)
Order this imageCollection
Beatrix Potter Gallery, Cumbria
NT 242235.25
Summary
Loose sheet from the manuscript dummy HIL.R.34 containing a pencil and watercolour illustration of a group of 4 mushrooms. The largest, in the centre, has a human face beneath the cap above a ruffle neck. There is also a face appearing from beneath the small mushroom to on the right. It is an illustration for the rhyme HIL.R.34.26. This sheet was slipped in between pages 36 and 37 of the dummy book. See also HIL.R.34, the dummy book; HIL.R.34.1 - HIL.R.34.24 and HIL.R.34.26 - HIL.R.34.49, further rhymes and illustrations.
Makers and roles
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943), writer