Live Auction 5950Children's Books, Original Illustrations and Vintage Film Posters
Christie’s roundel
Lot 47

Helen Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)

Aunt Pettitoes and her family with bucketfuls of milk

Closed10 December 2009

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GBP 5,000

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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.)

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

Specialist note

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.