Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)



"Sketchbook with fawn canvas cover, elastic loop and holder for pencil. Contents include: Sketch of a house in pencil, Croughton, Jan 7-10th 1907; Rye, pencil, Feb 9th 1907; Buckle Yeat seen from Tower Bank Arms, Sawrey in watercolour; Post Office and Stoney Lane winding up hillside in watercolour; Smithy Lane (background to The Roly-Poly Pudding in watercolour; Entrance to Stoney Lane, three children and chickens in foreground in watercolour; Hill Top farmhouse in pencil; Keswick railway station platform in pencil; Newlands possibly, hills, and lake and trees in foreground in watercolour."