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Spring

Watercolour
1903 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Beatrix Potter (artist)
Place of origin
Gloucestershire (drawn)

Drawing in watercolour and pen and ink. Colours are delicate but vibrant. Pathway leads back to a fence and large tree. Lettuces in flower bed to the left and stone edged flower beds.


Object details

Categories
Gardens & Gardening
Landscapes
Watercolours
Tourism & Travel
Woman Artist
Object type
Watercolour
TitleSpring (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour and pen and ink on paper
Ink
Paper (Fiber Product)
Watercolour (Paint)
Watercolour Painting (Technique)
Brief description
Drawing, Spring, watercolour and black ink over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Harescombe Grange, Gloucestershire, circa 1903, Linder Collection object no. LC.4.A.1, catalogue no. 3.20.
Physical description
Drawing in watercolour and pen and ink. Colours are delicate but vibrant. Pathway leads back to a fence and large tree. Lettuces in flower bed to the left and stone edged flower beds.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 293mm
  • Sheet width: 228mm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
'I & J H / KENT' (Watermark)
Credit line
Given by the Linder Collection
Object history
Given by Leslie Linder (1904-1973) to the National Book League (now the Book Trust) in 1970 as part of a representative selection of Beatrix Potter's work. This selection, comprising 279 drawings and 38 early editions and now known as the Linder Collection, was formerly on long-term loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1989 and 2019 form the charitable trust, The Linder Trust.
Subjects depicted
Lettuce
Flowers
Fences
Trees
Paths
Place depicted
Gloucestershire
Bibliographic references
  • Hobbs, Anne Stevenson (compiler). The Linder Collection of the works and drawings of Beatrix Potter: catalogue of works on paper. London: The Trustees of the Linder Collection, 1996 (1999 reprint). p.20, catalogue no. 3.20
  • Linder, Enid, Leslie Linder and Anne Carroll Moore, The Art of Beatrix Potter. London : Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1955. p.94
Other numbers
  • LOAN:LINDER TRUST.25-1994 - Previous Loan Number
  • 3.2 - Linder Collection catalogue no.
Collection
National Art Library
Library number
LC 4/A/1

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Record createdApril 23, 2013
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