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Lot 229: POTTER, BEATRIX. Original ink drawing and a signed card.
Auction House: Swann Auction Galleries
Auction Location: New York, NY, USA
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY
USA
10010
Phone: 212.254.4710
Fax: 212 979 1017
Email: swann@swanngalleries.com
Auction Title: ART, PRESS & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Auction Date: November 10, 2009
Description: POTTER ILLUSTRATION DRAWN ON HER BIRTHDAY POTTER, BEATRIX. Original ink drawing and a signed card. Drawing is of a mother sheep and her lamb greeting a duckling. Pencil and ink on tan wove paper, signed in full and dated July 28, 1924, also ink, 189x125 mm (frame); plain black wooden frame with original owner's note on back (thus unexamined out of frame). Greeting card is 8vo, folding, with printed image of Jemima Puddle Duck on cover and captioned illustration of Jemima, Peter Rabbit, and Tom Kitten inside. Addressed to same recipient as drawing (Mary F. Gill), signed by Potter, and dated "New Year 1935 / with all good wishes to all at Milton." (Westmoreland, 1924), 1935
Condition: All items are offered for sale subject to Swann Galleries' standard terms and conditions of sale, which are published in our catalogues.
Notes: Charming illustration by Potter created on her 58th birthday. The owner's pencil note states: "Original drawing by Beatrix Potter given to us by her on her 58th birthday in her home in Sawrey Westmoreland, England July 1924." A later gift inscription by that owner, dated 1943, in ink, appears above it.
