Watercolour
27/09/1899 (drawn)
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Drawing in watercolour over pencil. Landscape with cattle and line of trees in centre. Rounded hill and white house in trees in background. Sea with rocky islands and sandy spits to the right. Foreground unfinished. Purple/blue clouds in sky but clear light to picture.
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Materials and techniques | Watercolour over pencil on paper |
Brief description | Drawing from Mutehill of Kirkcudbright Bay looking towards the sea, watercolour over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Mutehill, 1899, Linder Collection object no. LC.14.A.3, catalogue no. 3.54 |
Physical description | Drawing in watercolour over pencil. Landscape with cattle and line of trees in centre. Rounded hill and white house in trees in background. Sea with rocky islands and sandy spits to the right. Foreground unfinished. Purple/blue clouds in sky but clear light to picture. |
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Production type | Unique |
Marks and inscriptions | 'Kirkcudbright bay - / Sept. 27th. 99 -' (In ink with title in detached lettering.) |
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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Associated object | LC.14/A/4 (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.25, cat. no. 3.54 |
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Library number | LC 14/A/3 |
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Record created | June 10, 2013 |
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