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Watercolour

ca.1900 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Beatrix Potter (artist)
Place of origin
Harescombe Grange (drawn)
Gloucestershire (drawn)

Drawing in watercolour over pencil of dresser with crockery and glasses in purples, pinks, whites and yellows on the left and a window on the right with a green and white striped curtain and net half curtain. Loosely defined pot plants on the window ledge. Foreground is only in pencil and depicted is a Windsor chair.


Object details

Categories
Illustration
Books
Tableware & Cutlery
Interiors
Watercolours
Woman Artist
Ceramics
Tourism & Travel
Object type
Watercolour
Materials and techniques
Watercolour over pencil on paper
Pencil
Paper (Fiber Product)
Watercolour (Paint)
Watercolour Painting (Technique)
Brief description
Drawing, unfinished study of dresser at Harescombe Grange, watercolour over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, probably at Harescombe Grange, near Stroud, ca. 1900, Linder Collection object no. LC.9.A.1, catalogue no. 4.28
Physical description
Drawing in watercolour over pencil of dresser with crockery and glasses in purples, pinks, whites and yellows on the left and a window on the right with a green and white striped curtain and net half curtain. Loosely defined pot plants on the window ledge. Foreground is only in pencil and depicted is a Windsor chair.
Dimensions
  • Height: 292mm
  • Width: 228mm
Size of paper.
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Tailor of Gloucester / Harescombe ?' (At base of picture.)
  • '6' ringed (In top right in erased pencil.)
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
Dresser
Windsor Chair
Window
Curtains
Crockery
Place depicted
Harescombe Grange
Associated objects
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.36, cat. no. 4.28
  • Potter, Beatrix. The tailor of Gloucester. London : Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1903. p.19
Other numbers
  • LOAN:LINDER TRUST.57-1994 - Previous Loan Number
  • 4.28 - Linder Collection catalogue no.
Collection
National Art Library
Library number
LC 9/A/1

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Record createdMay 14, 2013
Record URL
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