Children's Illustrations

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Lot 61
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Beatrix Potter

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Description

  • Beatrix Potter
  • Studies of Mice, 1890.
  • watercolor,pencil
Original watercolor over pencil (with ink highlights) depicting 11 studies of mice. Dated in the artist’s hand in pencil “Oct. ‘90” at lower left. Measures 9-3/8 x 6 inches.

Provenance

Ex Collection: Harry Bacon Collamore (ca. 1894- Sept 28, 1975)

Catalogue Note

Helen Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) was an English writer and illustrator most famous for her animal children’s books, most specifically, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902).