Peter Rabbit's Painting Book
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
Oct 1911
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pencil, Watercolour
Measurements
200 x 230 mm
Collection
Beatrix Potter Gallery, Cumbria
NT 242543
Summary
Proof copy of a page from the 1911 first edition of Peter Rabbit's Painting Book. Benjamin Bunny tends Peter, who is wrapped in a red spotted handkerchief. The picture has been coloured in, and there are instructions to the printer written in pencil, possibly by Beatrix Potter. The proof has been mounted on card.
Makers and roles
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943), artist Frederick Warne and Co Ltd.., engraver and publisher