Watercolour
1893 (drawn)
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Drawing in watercolour and pen and ink over pencil of three long-haired piebald guinea pigs in a basket. They lie on a blue cushion in a round open-lidded wicker basket. Basket asymmetrically placed to the left with guinea pigs looking to the right.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Watercolour and pen and ink over pencil on paper |
| Brief description | Drawing of guinea pigs in basket: design for the inside of a shaped greetings card, watercolour and some pen and ink over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, probably Bolton Gardens (London), probably 1893, Linder Collection object no. LC.18.A.1, catalogue no. 7.6(a) |
| Physical description | Drawing in watercolour and pen and ink over pencil of three long-haired piebald guinea pigs in a basket. They lie on a blue cushion in a round open-lidded wicker basket. Basket asymmetrically placed to the left with guinea pigs looking to the right. |
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| Production type | Design |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'H B P' (In ink on bottom right of basket.) |
| 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.18/A/5 (Pair) |
| 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.51, cat. no. 7.6(a) |
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| Library number | LC 18/A/1 |
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| Record created | July 4, 2013 |
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