Falling Leaves
Watercolour
1908-1909 (drawn)
1908-1909 (drawn)
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Drawing in watercolour over pencil. Timber-framed house with shrubs to the left. Path in centre. Trees with autumn colouring in centre right and background including a beech on the right. Fallen leaves. Composition fills the frame with tops of trees not visible.
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Title | Falling Leaves (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour over pencil on paper |
Brief description | Drawing, Falling Leaves, watercolour over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Gwaynynog, Denbighshire, probably 1908 or 1909, Linder Collection object no. LC.14.A.2, cat. no. 3.19 |
Physical description | Drawing in watercolour over pencil. Timber-framed house with shrubs to the left. Path in centre. Trees with autumn colouring in centre right and background including a beech on the right. Fallen leaves. Composition fills the frame with tops of trees not visible. |
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Production type | Unique |
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.20, cat. no. 3.19 |
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Library number | LC 14/A/2 |
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Record created | June 10, 2013 |
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