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10/1897 (drawn)
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Drawing in watercolour and pen and ink over pencil of three specimens of leccinum melanea on the left, including button and cut through section. Main image of dark brown cap with spores on top. One specimen of leccinum scabrum shown on right with a yellow hued cap, fern and grass shown underneath.
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Materials and techniques | Watercolour and pen and ink over pencil on paper |
Brief description | Drawing of four specimens of fungi, watercolour and pen and ink over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Lingholm, Keswick, 1897, Linder Collection object no. LC.6.A.2, cat. no. 2.27 |
Physical description | Drawing in watercolour and pen and ink over pencil of three specimens of leccinum melanea on the left, including button and cut through section. Main image of dark brown cap with spores on top. One specimen of leccinum scabrum shown on right with a yellow hued cap, fern and grass shown underneath. |
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Content description | mycology |
Production type | Unique |
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Gallery label | Potter studied fungi scientifically but also referred to them as ‘fairy rings, the myriads of fairy fungi’. In this unpublished story for a sequel to The Fairy Caravan, Xarifa and Tuppenny discuss how to address boletus mushrooms: ‘Are they fairies?’ asks Tuppennny. ‘Hush!’ said Xarifa, ‘I only know that Petronella said the mushrooms danced at night.’
[This object featured alongside a manuscript in a display Beatrix Potter's Fairyland](November 2019) |
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. |
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Bibliographic reference | 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.13, cat. no. 2.27 |
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Library number | LC 6/A/2 |
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Record created | May 2, 2013 |
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