The Store Cupboard
Unpublished, 1890.
An original watercolour painted onto a postcard (6.5 inches x 4.25 inches). The image is signed with Potter's initials "H.B.P. 1890". The card has an unusual novelty element. The main image depicts a mouse next to a store cupboard, plus a lift up flap opening the door to reveal a well stocked food cupboard. In very good, bright condition, with just a tiny crease to the right hand side. The painting is framed in a hinged frame, allowing for display and easy access to open the cupboard door.
It is a fabulous painting as not only is it very detailed, but it is most unusual because of the hidden drawer element. The image is very similar to one used in 1916 to accompany Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes.
PROVENANCE: The card was sent by Potter to Bessie and Elinor Lupton, her second cousins. The card was then passed down through the Lupton family until it was sold in September 2006; since then it has been in a private British collection.
Stock ID: 28543
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