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Watercolour

1894 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Beatrix Potter (artist)
Place of origin
Lennel (Berwickshire) (drawn)

Drawing in watercolour and pen and ink over pencil of a landing and corridor. Panelled, round-headed door left of centre with an arch beside it to the right through to a corridor with a small flight of stairs with another arch at the far end in front of a window with tracery. Mauve carpet. Pale brown wardrobe in left hand foreground and delicate early 19th century ironwork baluster to right. Study of perspective. Delicate colour washes of claret, ochre and silver-grey.


Object details

Categories
Interiors
Scotland
Watercolours
Woman Artist
Tourism & Travel
Object type
Watercolour
Materials and techniques
Watercolour and pen and ink over pencil on paper
Ink
Pencil
Paper (Fiber Product)
Watercolour (Paint)
Watercolour Painting (Technique)
Brief description
Drawing of a landing and corridor, watercolour and pen and ink over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Lennel, Berwickshire, probably 1894, Linder Collection object no. LC.12.A.5, catalogue no. 3.36
Physical description
Drawing in watercolour and pen and ink over pencil of a landing and corridor. Panelled, round-headed door left of centre with an arch beside it to the right through to a corridor with a small flight of stairs with another arch at the far end in front of a window with tracery. Mauve carpet. Pale brown wardrobe in left hand foreground and delicate early 19th century ironwork baluster to right. Study of perspective. Delicate colour washes of claret, ochre and silver-grey.
Dimensions
  • Height: 133mm
  • Width: 180mm
Size of paper.
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
Arch
Corridor
Stairs
Door
Cupboard
Window
Tracery
Balusters
Place depicted
Lennel
Associated object
LC.12/A/6 (Series)
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.22, cat. no. 3.36
Other numbers
  • LOAN:LINDER TRUST.91-1994 - Previous Loan Number
  • 3.37 - Linder Collection catalogue no.
Collection
National Art Library
Library number
LC 12/A/6

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Record createdMay 31, 2013
Record URL
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