The rabbit's dream
Drawing
ca.1895 (drawn)
ca.1895 (drawn)
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Drawing in pen and ink over pencil. Central image of a rabbit asleep in a half-tester bed. Chair on left and mirror on chest of drawers to the right. Vignetted in swirling ink lines. Border of thirteen resting rabbits. Four to the left of page and 13 to the right. Two rabbits have bows around their necks.
Object details
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| Title | The rabbit's dream (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink over pencil on paper |
| Brief description | Drawing, The rabbit's dream, pen and ink over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, probably Camfield Place, ca. 1895, Linder Collection object no. LC.20.A.3, catalogue no. 6.5 |
| Physical description | Drawing in pen and ink over pencil. Central image of a rabbit asleep in a half-tester bed. Chair on left and mirror on chest of drawers to the right. Vignetted in swirling ink lines. Border of thirteen resting rabbits. Four to the left of page and 13 to the right. Two rabbits have bows around their necks. |
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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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| Associated object | LC.8/A/1 (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.49, cat. no. 6.5 |
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| Library number | LC 20/A/3 |
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| Record created | July 17, 2013 |
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