An original Beatrix Potter Christmas card, Peter Rabbit Sledging, will be auctioned at Sotheby's Bond Street on December 10.
It was drawn in 1894, eight years before the publication of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and is estimated at £30,000-£50,000.
Also in the sale is the first Christmas card (£10,000- £15,000), a tradition thought to have been started by Henry Cole (co-founder of the V&A) in 1843 when he commissioned John Calcott Horsley to produce a card with a festive image with the strapline ‘A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year To You' and lines for the sender to write the recipient's name and his own signature (www.sothebys.com).
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Brockfield Hall, the great Yorkshire house that's gone from Regency mansion to modern family homeBrockfield Hall in North Yorkshire is the family home of Charlie Wood and Hatta Byng, editor of House & Garden, who have transformed it since they came here in 2020, winning multiple awards in the process. John Martin Robinson reports on the restoration project that revived this compact Regency house as a modern family home. Photographs by Paul Highnam for Country Life.
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