Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1904 - 1905
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pencil
Measurements
200 x 157 mm; 1 sheet (Extent)
Order this imageCollection
Beatrix Potter Gallery, Cumbria
NT 242235.9
Summary
Loose sheet from the manuscript dummy HIL.R.34 containing a pencil and ink-written rhyme within a rough pencil border design. This sheet was slipped in between pages 18 and 19 of the dummy book. According to Peter Opie, this rhyme was inspired by 'If all the world were paper', see the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes no. 548. If acorn cups were tea-cups/ What should we have to drink?/ Oh honey-dew for sugar/ In a cuckoo-pint of milk,/ Set out upon a toadstool/ On a cloth of cob-web silk,/ With pats of witches' butter/ And a tansey cake, I think! See also HIL.R.34, the dummy book; HIL.R.34.1 - HIL.R.34.8 and HIL.R.34.10 - HIL.R.34.49, further rhymes and illustrations.
Makers and roles
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943), writer