Paper scrap
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
Each piece (min) - 65 mm (length); 60 mm (height), Each piece (max) - 135 mm (length); 100 mm (height)
Place of origin
Britain
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 669662
Summary
Nine pieces of paper of various shapes and sizes depicting black ink and colour illustrations of nursery rhyme characters. They include as follows: Little Bo Peep, Little Boy Blue, Mary Mary quite contrary, Mary had a little lamb, four and twenty blackbirds, little Miss Muffet, Hey Diddle-diddle, Humpty Dumpty, Old Mother Hubbard and a man with pig. Some illustrations are fragments only, including a colour title reading 'Nursery Rhymes'. Total number of items is 9.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mr and Mrs P. Andrews in January 1988.
Marks and inscriptions
On the reverse of four and twenty blackbirds: 'BRITISH MANUFACTURE'