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She wrote the majority of the twenty-three Original Peter Rabbit Books between 1901 and 1913. <i>The Tale of Peter Rabbit</i> (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale.  \n\n'Come dance a jig, to my Granny's pig' was part of a series of drawings that Beatrix produced to illustrate a rhyme of this title for a book of rhymes she began to put together in 1905. She was keen on this format for a book but her publisher (Frederick Warne &amp; Co.) was more anxious to keep up her successful stream of original tales. Norman Warne worked with Beatrix to identify which rhymes he thought were worth developing with the results identifiable through his initials beside them in a stiff red covered exercise book (Linder Bequest LB.1152). Following Norman's sudden death in August 1905, the book was put to one side.\n\n<i>Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes</i>(1917) was developed from the original 1905 book of rhymes. Beatrix developed the rhymes to help her publisher out of financial difficulties. It was easier for her to develop during the challenging war period than a new tale. 'Come dance a jig, to my Granny's pig' did not make the published edition.  ","physicalDescription":"Drawing in watercolour and pen and ink of a black cat playing a fiddle perched on a wooden post whilst three hens dance in the farmyard. A cockerel and three other hens (one on the sty's red tiled roof), and a pig in the sty, look on. 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Acquired by the V&A from Leslie Linder (1904-1973) in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest, a collection of ca. 2150 watercolours, drawings, literary manuscripts, correspondence, books, photographs, and other memorabilia associated with Beatrix Potter and her family.   ","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Drawing, Come dance a jig to my Granny's pig, watercolour and pen and ink: illustration for a rhyme included in 1905 unpublished work for a book of rhymes but excluded from <i>Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes</i> (1917), by Beatrix Potter, Great Britain, 1905, Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.705.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Hobbs, Anne Stevenson, and Joyce Irene Whalley, eds. <u>Beatrix Potter: the V & A collection : the Leslie Linder bequest of Beatrix Potter material : watercolours, drawings, manuscripts, books, photographs and memorabilia.</u> London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985.","id":"AUTH315806"},"details":"p.72, cat. no. 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