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The day's news

Watercolour
1893-1894 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Beatrix Potter (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (drawn)

Drawing in watercolour and pen and ink over pencil of a mouse sitting reading the paper. He has a pince-nez and alert expression on his face and sits on a rattan chair. Greyish shadow falls to the right.

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read Leslie Linder and the Beatrix Potter collection On his death in 1973, the scholar and collector Leslie Linder (1904 – 73) left the V&A his unrivalled personal collection of about 2,400 Beatrix Potter drawings, manuscripts and books (many of which were first editions owned by Beatrix or her family), as well as photographs by her father R...

Object details

Categories
Animals and Wildlife
Anthropomorphism
Illustration
Watercolours
Woman Artist
Object type
Watercolour
TitleThe day's news (popular title)
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, The day's news, watercolour and pen and ink over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Great Britain, probably ca.1893-94, Linder Collection object no. LC.20.A.2, catalogue no. 6.1
Physical description
Drawing in watercolour and pen and ink over pencil of a mouse sitting reading the paper. He has a pince-nez and alert expression on his face and sits on a rattan chair. Greyish shadow falls to the right.
Dimensions
  • Height: 164mm
  • Width: 103mm
Size of paper.
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'H B P.' (Signed in ink in bottom right.)
  • [part of Britannia figure, in oval cartouche] (Watermark)
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
Mouse
Newspaper
Pince-Nez
Rattan*
Chair
Literary referenceThe Tailor of Gloucester, reused for cover image with cotton reel subsitution
Bibliographic reference
Hobbs, Anne Stevenson (compiler). The Linder Collection of the works and drawings of Beatrix Potter : catalogue of works on paper. London, 1999 p.49, cat. no. 6.1
Other numbers
  • LOAN:LINDER TRUST.181-1994 - Previous Loan Number
  • 6.1 - Linder Collection catalogue no.
Collection
National Art Library
Library number
LC 20/A/2

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Record createdJuly 16, 2013
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