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241 ● BEATRIX POTTER. “The Cats’ Meat Man.” Pencil drawing across folded
folio sheet, unsigned but annotated in pencil “Rough Sketch.The cats [sic] meat man” in
Potter’s hand, lower left. 210x286 mm; 8 1/4 x111/4 inches, image, on cream paper, vertical
crease from fold, scattered light foxing, professionally matted and framed with archival
acrylic, in brown and gold wood. Not examined out of frame. Circa 1895.
[30,000/40,000]
From the estate of the artist’s brother, Bertram Potter.This image was a study for a full double-
sided cut-out watercolor on board given to Noel Moore in May 1895, the image later revived
as “fisher-cart,” a line drawing in “The Fairy Caravan” 1929.