Author: POTTER, Beatrix, artist
Title: Duchess Carrying a Bouquet of Flowers "I'Ve Brought You Some Flowers; What a Delicious Smell of Pie!
Description: n.p.: , 1905. I've brought you some flowers; what a delicious smell of pie!" A Wonderful Original Pen & Brown Ink Drawing for Beatrix Potter's The Pie and the Patty Pan POTTER, Beatrix, artist. Duchess carrying a bouquet of Flowers "I've brought you some flowers; what a delicious smell of pie!" Original pen and brown ink drawing from The Pie and The Patty-Pan. [The Pie and the Patty Pan, page 29]. [n.d. 1905]. Size 3 1/4 x 5 inches; 84 x 127 mm.). Matted, framed and glazed (Frame size 14 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches; 362 x 413 mm.). "Very punctually at four o'clock, Duchess started to go to the party. She ran so fast through the village that she was too early, and she had to wait a little while in the lane that leads down to Ribby's house. "I wonder if Ribby has taken my pie out of the oven yet?" said Duchess, "and whatever can have become of the other pie made of mouse?" At a quarter past four to the minute, there came a most genteel little tap-tappity. "Is Mrs. Ribston at home?" inquired Duchess in the porch. "Come in! and how do you do? my dear Duchess," cried Ribby. "I hope I see you well?" "Quite well, I thank you, and how do you do, my dear Ribby?" said Duchess. "I've brought you some flowers; what a delicious smell of pie!" "Oh, what lovely flowers! Yes, it is mouse and bacon!" The Pie and the Patty-Pan is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and published by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1905. It tells of a cat called Ribby and a tea party she holds for a dog called Duchess. Complications arise when Duchess tries to replace Ribby's mouse pie with her own veal and ham pie, and then believes she has swallowed a small tin pastry form called a patty-pan. Its themes are etiquette and social relations in a small town. The illustrations depict the cottages and gardens of Sawrey, a village in the Lake District near Potter's Hill Top farm, and have been described as some of the most exquisite Potter ever produced. Ribby was modelled on a cat living in Sawrey, Duchess on two Pomeranians belonging to Potter's neighbor Mrs Rogerson. The Potter family summered occasionally at Lakefield, a country house in the village of Sawrey. "They came with their servants, their carriage and pair, and Miss Potter with her pony and phaeton," a village resident recalled. "Miss Potter was about the village sketching everywhere and often came to our house." Close to Lakefield and off the road in their own enclosure were three dwellings known as Lakefield Cottages.Mr. Rogerson, a gardener and caretaker at Lakefield, lived in one of the cottages, and eventually his wife's two pedigree Pomeranians - Darkie and Duchess - would become the models for Potter's fictional Duchess. Darkie had a fine black mane, but Duchess was more intelligent and could sit up with a lump of sugar balanced on her nose. The tale was originally published in a larger size than Potter's previous books, but was reduced in the 1930s to bring it into line with the other books in the Peter Rabbit series. Beatrix Potter declared the tale her next favorite to The Tailor of Gloucester. Provenance: sold by David Brass in July 1996 to a private US collector. This is the first time that this wonderful drawing is being offered for sale for nearly forty years. .
Keywords: Original Art
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Title: Duchess Carrying a Bouquet of Flowers "I'Ve Brought You Some Flowers; What a Delicious Smell of Pie!
Description: n.p.: , 1905. I've brought you some flowers; what a delicious smell of pie!" A Wonderful Original Pen & Brown Ink Drawing for Beatrix Potter's The Pie and the Patty Pan POTTER, Beatrix, artist. Duchess carrying a bouquet of Flowers "I've brought you some flowers; what a delicious smell of pie!" Original pen and brown ink drawing from The Pie and The Patty-Pan. [The Pie and the Patty Pan, page 29]. [n.d. 1905]. Size 3 1/4 x 5 inches; 84 x 127 mm.). Matted, framed and glazed (Frame size 14 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches; 362 x 413 mm.). "Very punctually at four o'clock, Duchess started to go to the party. She ran so fast through the village that she was too early, and she had to wait a little while in the lane that leads down to Ribby's house. "I wonder if Ribby has taken my pie out of the oven yet?" said Duchess, "and whatever can have become of the other pie made of mouse?" At a quarter past four to the minute, there came a most genteel little tap-tappity. "Is Mrs. Ribston at home?" inquired Duchess in the porch. "Come in! and how do you do? my dear Duchess," cried Ribby. "I hope I see you well?" "Quite well, I thank you, and how do you do, my dear Ribby?" said Duchess. "I've brought you some flowers; what a delicious smell of pie!" "Oh, what lovely flowers! Yes, it is mouse and bacon!" The Pie and the Patty-Pan is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and published by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1905. It tells of a cat called Ribby and a tea party she holds for a dog called Duchess. Complications arise when Duchess tries to replace Ribby's mouse pie with her own veal and ham pie, and then believes she has swallowed a small tin pastry form called a patty-pan. Its themes are etiquette and social relations in a small town. The illustrations depict the cottages and gardens of Sawrey, a village in the Lake District near Potter's Hill Top farm, and have been described as some of the most exquisite Potter ever produced. Ribby was modelled on a cat living in Sawrey, Duchess on two Pomeranians belonging to Potter's neighbor Mrs Rogerson. The Potter family summered occasionally at Lakefield, a country house in the village of Sawrey. "They came with their servants, their carriage and pair, and Miss Potter with her pony and phaeton," a village resident recalled. "Miss Potter was about the village sketching everywhere and often came to our house." Close to Lakefield and off the road in their own enclosure were three dwellings known as Lakefield Cottages.Mr. Rogerson, a gardener and caretaker at Lakefield, lived in one of the cottages, and eventually his wife's two pedigree Pomeranians - Darkie and Duchess - would become the models for Potter's fictional Duchess. Darkie had a fine black mane, but Duchess was more intelligent and could sit up with a lump of sugar balanced on her nose. The tale was originally published in a larger size than Potter's previous books, but was reduced in the 1930s to bring it into line with the other books in the Peter Rabbit series. Beatrix Potter declared the tale her next favorite to The Tailor of Gloucester. Provenance: sold by David Brass in July 1996 to a private US collector. This is the first time that this wonderful drawing is being offered for sale for nearly forty years. .
Keywords: Original Art
Price: US$ 18500.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 06136
- Book number: 06136
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