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Drawing

1900 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Beatrix Potter (artist)
Place of origin
Winchelsea (drawn)

Drawing in pencil of a dressing room. Bed-hangings or curtains to protect hanging clothes to the left. In front is a balloon back chair and a small round pedestal table with a possible microscope box upon it. Sash window with open shutters on facing wall. Small bow-legged dressing table with oval mirror on top in back right hand corner, in front of which is a rabbit lying on all its legs. Fireplace with rug in front. Pelmet and curtains at either side and mirror above. On the mantel piece is a clock under a glass cover and a peacock feather. A folding easy chair is in the right foreground.


Object details

Categories
Drawings
Interiors
Furniture
Woman Artist
Object type
drawing
Materials and techniques
Pencil on paper
Pencil
Paper (Fiber Product)
Drawn
Brief description
Drawing of a dressing room interior, pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Derwent Cottage, Winchelsea, probably 1900, Linder Collection object no. LC.11.B.5, catalogue no. 3.50
Physical description
Drawing in pencil of a dressing room. Bed-hangings or curtains to protect hanging clothes to the left. In front is a balloon back chair and a small round pedestal table with a possible microscope box upon it. Sash window with open shutters on facing wall. Small bow-legged dressing table with oval mirror on top in back right hand corner, in front of which is a rabbit lying on all its legs. Fireplace with rug in front. Pelmet and curtains at either side and mirror above. On the mantel piece is a clock under a glass cover and a peacock feather. A folding easy chair is in the right foreground.
Dimensions
  • Height: 201mm
  • Width: 253mm
Size of sheet of paper (although irregular).
Production typeUnique
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
Rabbits
Mantelpieces
Sliding Windows
Dressing Tables
Dressing Rooms
Shutters
Mirrors
Peacock Feathers
Curtains
Place depicted
Winchelsea
Associated objects
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.25, cat. no. 3.50
Other numbers
  • LOAN:LINDER TRUST.86-1994 - Previous Loan Number
  • 3.5 - Linder Collection catalogue no.
Collection
National Art Library
Library number
LC 11/B/5

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Record createdMay 30, 2013
Record URL
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