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 242235.32
Summary
Loose sheet from the manuscript dummy HIL.R.34 containing a pencil-written rhyme and a pencil illustration of boxes, with human faces, on a barrow; a train; parcels running on legs. The sheet was slipped in between pages 48 and 49 of the dummy book. Big Box, Little Box/ Band box, Bundle!/ You hold tight and don't you tumble!/ When the train comes in, with a rush and a rumble!/ The train came in,/ the barrow gave a trundle,/ Off jumped Little Box, Band box, Bundle! See also HIL.R.34, the dummy book; HIL.R.34.1 - HIL.R.34.31 and HIL.R.34.33 - HIL.R.34.49, further rhymes and illustrations.
Makers and roles
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943), writer