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Lost opportunities

Drawing
1890 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Beatrix Potter (artist)
Place of origin
2 Bolton Gardens (drawn)

Drawing in pen and ink over pencil of two rabbits passing each other in a cobbled street. Female rabbit is in the foreground dressed in a long dress and carrying a fur muff, small bag tied in ribbon and an umbrella. She is observed by a male rabbit who has just walked past, wearing a frock coat with a bow behind his head, holding mistletoe in forepaw and a cane in his right. Partly visible are a road sign on the side of the building in the left foreground, lettered 'Streete', a milestone to the right and a hanging clock above the characters from one of the shops. Vignetted.


Object details

Categories
Drawings
Animals and Wildlife
Anthropomorphism
Greeting Cards
Illustration
Woman Artist
Object type
drawing
TitleLost opportunities (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink over pencil on paper
Ink
Pencil
Paper (Fiber Product)
Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description
Drawing, Lost opportunities: line version, pen and ink over pencil with some correction in white, by Beatrix Potter, Bolton Gardens, probably 1890, Linder Collection object no. LC.20.B.2, catalogue no. 7.4
Physical description
Drawing in pen and ink over pencil of two rabbits passing each other in a cobbled street. Female rabbit is in the foreground dressed in a long dress and carrying a fur muff, small bag tied in ribbon and an umbrella. She is observed by a male rabbit who has just walked past, wearing a frock coat with a bow behind his head, holding mistletoe in forepaw and a cane in his right. Partly visible are a road sign on the side of the building in the left foreground, lettered 'Streete', a milestone to the right and a hanging clock above the characters from one of the shops. Vignetted.
Dimensions
  • Height: 168mm
  • Width: 106mm
Size of paper (torn off at left).
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'HBP' (In pen in bottom right.)
  • 'same size / [?send]' [deleted] (In pencil)
  • 'C' (In ink, underlined.)
  • [part of Britannia figure, in oval cartouche]
    Transliteration
    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
Street
Cobble
Rabbits
Muff
Cane
Mistletoe
Clock
Ironwork
Shops
Associated object
LC.20/B/1 (Series)
Bibliographic references
  • 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. 7.4
  • Weatherly, F. E. A Happy Pair. London, [1890]. black and white variant of illustration no. 6 in publication
Other numbers
  • LOAN:LINDER TRUST.186-1994 - Previous Loan Number
  • 7.4 - Linder Collection catalogue no.
Collection
National Art Library
Library number
LC 20/B/2

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Record createdJuly 18, 2013
Record URL
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