"Tea rabbit" put up for auction

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Previously unpublished watercolor "Tea rabbit" British children's writer and artist Beatrix Potter put up for auction auction house Bonhams to estimate 10-15 thousand pounds sterling (U.S. $ 15400-23100). BBC News notes that the summer of 2008 work Potter went under the hammer for 289-odd thousand pounds, an amount five times exceeded the expectations of auctioneers Sotheby's. Addition, the work was the most expensive book illustration ever put up for auction.
Proposed November 11 lot Bonhams - image size is 12.5 by 10 centimeters. The exact date of writing, watercolors is unknown, but Beatrix Potter was like a sketch in 1895, where instead of the rabbit was drawn kitten. "Tea" is not included in any of the books of writer and more than half a century, kept in private collections.

Demand for the original book illustrations remains popular, despite the crisis, high. November 4 at Bonhams auction picture of Ernest Howard Shepard to the tale of Alan Milne's "The House at Pooh Corner" ( "House at Pooh Corner") was sold for more than 50 thousand dollars.