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TEMPEST (MARGARET) Three fine original watercolour illustrations, designed for Alison Uttley's 'The Squirrel, the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit', [1929] image 1
TEMPEST (MARGARET) Three fine original watercolour illustrations, designed for Alison Uttley's 'The Squirrel, the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit', [1929] image 2
TEMPEST (MARGARET) Three fine original watercolour illustrations, designed for Alison Uttley's 'The Squirrel, the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit', [1929] image 3
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TEMPEST (MARGARET)
Three fine original watercolour illustrations, designed for Alison Uttley's 'The Squirrel, the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit', [1929]

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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TEMPEST (MARGARET)

Three fine original watercolour illustrations, designed for Alison Uttley's 'The Squirrel, the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit', ink and watercolour within hand-drawn border, on card, annotated on the verso "S.H. & L.G.R.", window-mounted, framed and glazed in one frame, images 104 x 63mm. (Hare), others circular 80mm. diameter, [1929]

Footnotes

Original illustrations drawn for the first of the Little Grey Rabbit series. Two (Grey Rabbit and Squirrel with Hare; Grey Rabbit leaning against the oven) were used in the book, whilst another of Squirrel drinking from a cup was not used.

Provenance: Margaret Tempest. Included with the lot is a facsimile of a typed letter sent in 1979 to Tempest ("Lady Mears, c/o Kersey, Tempest and Latter, Ipswich"), from Susan Dickinson, of Collins, publishers of the Little Grey Rabbit series: "Dear Margaret, This is to confirm that I have handed to you seven original illustrations.... [including] "three from The Squirrel, the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit".

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