$8,888
Beatrix Potter (British, 1866-1943) A Ewe and Lamb Meet a Duckling Signed and dated "Beatrix Potter/ July 28, 1924" l. r., with a label from T.W. Norman Co., Boston, and inscribed "Gift to M... from Mary F. Gill/ Je. 17, 1943/ original drawing by Beatrix Potter given to us by her on her 58th birthday in her home in Sawrey, Westmoreland [sic], England, July 1924" in pen and graphite in Mary F. Gill's hand on the backing. Ink and graphite on laid paper, sight size 7 1/2 x 5 in. (19.1 x 12.7 cm), framed. Condition: Minor toning, not examined out of frame. Provenance: Through the collection of Mary F. Gill, Massachusetts. N.B. A New Year's greeting card with a reproduced image of Jemima, Peter Rabbit, and Tom Kitten dedicated "[From] Beatrix Potter [To] Mary F. Gill/ New Year 1935/ with good wishes to all at Milton." in pen in Beatrix Potter's hand, accompanies the lot. We wish to thank Dr. Linda Lear, Beatrix Potter scholar and author of Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature , for her assistance with cataloguing the lot and the following information: By 1924, Mary F. Gill, a prominent Boston Unitarian, and Beatrix Potter had been corresponding for some years as a result of Gill's activities with "Friendly Links", an organization promoting intellectual exchange between British and American Unitarians. Potter, a life-long Unitarian, invited Gill, along with her sister Rebecca Field, her husband William L.W. Field and their two daughters to visit her in Near Sawrey in Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-05-20
