Shirley Hughes (b 1927) - 'Poor Thumbelina stood at the door and begged for a little piece of barley-corn', pen and ink with watercolour and bodycolour, 21.5 x 14 cm Ill - Your Child, issue 25, back cover Note - Drawn for but not illustrated in E Jean Robertson (reteller) and Caroline Peachy (trans) 'Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales', Glasgow, Blackie 1961 'Thumbelina', but used in the 1970 two part edition, part I Exh - The Illustrators, The British Art of Illustration 1786-2003, no 511 Prov - Chris Beetles (label to verso)