![]() Benjamin went for walks on a lead on Potter family holidays, and Peter went with Beatrix everywhere and even performed tricks. Both she and her younger brother, Walter Bertram, loved drawing and made sketches of their various pets - including her two pet rabbits, Benjamin Bouncer and Peter Piper. Helen Beatrix Potter was born in Kensington, London, in 1866. Peter Costanzo, specialist at Doyle Auctions, said: 'Part of the charm of this early period is that Potter apparently did not intend to publish books for children. The items have been consigned from the Mary K Young Collection, which was amassed by her in the late 1980s and '90s. The collection also features Potter's personal first edition issue of The Tailor of Gloucester (1902), as well as other signed first editions of her works. ![]() Ripley had a deformity in his hands and had a very stern father, so Potter, who did not have children of her own, wanted to lift his spirits. They have been signed from Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, Josephine Rabbit, and Mr McGregor. The latest items in the collection are four picture letters Potter sent to a Master Jack Ripley in 19. The two lots are expected to sell for a combined £50,000. She bought a loaf of brown bread and five currant buns.' It is accompanied with the text: 'Then old Mrs Rabbit took a basket and her umbrella, and went through the woods to the baker's. The first depicts Mrs Rabbit buttoning Peter's coat, while the second is of Mrs Rabbit with a basket and umbrella in a forest. Other illustrations in the letter show a pig providing a ring for the owl, and the owl getting married to the cat In total, 20 of Potter's original drawings and letters are going under the hammer with US-based Doyle Auctions.Īnother item is a 4.5ins by 3.5ins drawing showing two rabbits, including Peter Rabbit, in a sledging mishap in 1894 carries the same estimate.Ī 1899 drawing of Bunny entitled 'In a Red Jacket Shovelling Snow' is valued at £25,000. The letter is expected to fetch £50,000 alone. ![]() Other illustrations in the letter show a pig providing a ring for the owl, and the owl getting married to the cat. Opposite it, Potter, who was aged 31 at the time, wrote: 'It is odd to see an owl with hands, but how could he play the guitar without them.' On one page of her letter she drew an owl, guitar in hand, at sea with the pussy cat as she pays homage to the quirky plot. It was so important to her she even wrote a prequel to the tale, 'The Tale of Little Pig Robinson'. Potter fell in love with the poem as a four-year-old when she didn't have many close friends, but her family allowed her to keep a menagerie of animals including rabbits and mice. It features drawings of characters from one of Potter's favourite childhood tales, Edward Lear's 'The Owl and the Pussy Cat'. Pictured in 1892 Beatrix Potter British author and illustrator of children's books, including 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit'
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