Beatrix Potter’s Original Drawings Sell for $95,000
Art and book collectors alike can delight in the recent sale of a series of original, rare Beatrix Potter illustrations through Sotheby’s. Today in London a set of four watercolors of “This Pig Went To Market” sold for $95,000.
The illustrations were originally published in “Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes,” published in 1922. The first drawings shows a colonial looking pig riding a horse and cart to the market while another pig lounges on the fence with the intent of staying home. To accompany the text “This Pig had a bit of Meat; This Pig had none,” the second illustration shows a grandmotherly pig frying meat (we’re hoping it’s not pork), while another pig-companion peels potatoes. A third drawing brings the rhyme to a close, depicting an adorable weeping pig who can’t find its way home.
Reprinted from The Huffington Post, July 10, 2012.