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 242235.39
Summary
Loose sheet from the manuscript dummy HIL.R.34 containing a pencil-written rhyme and a pencil illustration of a flock of sheep and a human figure with a moon rising above the horizon. The sheet was slipped in between pages 62 and 63 of the dummy book. The Moon/ Shepherdess of fields on high/ That hold ten thousand sheep/ Drive your flock across the sky/ The clouds that sail the deep! See also HIL.R.34, the dummy book; HIL.R.34.1 - HIL.R.34.38 and HIL.R.34.40 - HIL.R.34.49, further rhymes and illustrations.
Makers and roles
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943), writer