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Watercolour

21/08/1909 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Beatrix Potter (artist)
Place of origin
Teignmouth (drawn)

Drawing in watercolour and sepia ink over pencil of a cottage porch. Jade green door, open slightly inwards within a tiled porch. Buckets and low wall to the left. Tabby cat in the foreground to the right outlined in sepia ink. Plants on pots on table and on ground in front of window with one quarter open. Creeper climbing up house facade. Flagstones on ground.


Object details

Categories
Watercolours
Architecture
Tourism & Travel
Woman Artist
Object type
Watercolour
Materials and techniques
Watercolour and sepia ink over pencil on paper
Pencil
Ink
Paper (Fiber Product)
Watercolour (Paint)
Watercolour Painting (Technique)
Brief description
Drawing of a cottage porch at Teignmouth, watercolour and sepia ink over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Teignmouth, 1909, Linder Collection object no. LC.14.A.6, catalogue no. 3.18
Physical description
Drawing in watercolour and sepia ink over pencil of a cottage porch. Jade green door, open slightly inwards within a tiled porch. Buckets and low wall to the left. Tabby cat in the foreground to the right outlined in sepia ink. Plants on pots on table and on ground in front of window with one quarter open. Creeper climbing up house facade. Flagstones on ground.
Dimensions
  • Height: 250mm
  • Width: 176mm
Size of paper.
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
'Aug 21st 09' (In pencil in bottom left.)
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
Porch
Cottage
Buckets
Plant Pots
Creeper
Cat
Flagstones
Place depicted
Teignmouth
Associated object
LC.14/A/5 (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.20, cat. no. 3.18
Other numbers
  • LOAN:LINDER TRUST.116-1994 - Previous Loan Number
  • 3.18 - Linder Collection catalogue no.
Collection
National Art Library
Library number
LC 14/A/6

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Record createdJune 10, 2013
Record URL
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