Aunt Pettitoes and her family with bucketfuls of milk

Details

Helen Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
Aunt Pettitoes and her family with bucketfuls of milk
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour
6¾ x 5½ in. (17.2 x 14 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 3 August 1988.

Literature

The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter, published by Frederick Warne & Co., 1989, ill. p. 285.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This drawing is one of the variants for the illustration to Pigling Bland. Aunt Pettitoes' family consisted of four girl piglets called Cross-patch, Suck-suck, Yock-yock and Spot, and four boy piglets whose names were Alexander, Pigling Bland, Chin-chin and Stumpy.

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