Watercolour
1892 (drawn)
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Drawing in watercolour and pen and ink over pencil of a white rabbit looking down as he puts on his white kid gloves in the foreground. He is advancing into the lighter end of a long wooden panelled, red-carpeted corridor. He is wearing a blue frock coat, pink waistcoat, a fan under his left fore-leg. Rabbit has pink eyes and ears. Window at far end of the corridor. Corridor spans from left foreground diagonally to the right in the distance.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Watercolour and pen and ink over pencil on paper |
| Brief description | Drawing of The White Rabbit, watercolour and pen and ink over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Great Britain, ca.1892, Linder Collection object no. LC.21.A.2(a), catalogue no. 5.4(a) |
| Physical description | Drawing in watercolour and pen and ink over pencil of a white rabbit looking down as he puts on his white kid gloves in the foreground. He is advancing into the lighter end of a long wooden panelled, red-carpeted corridor. He is wearing a blue frock coat, pink waistcoat, a fan under his left fore-leg. Rabbit has pink eyes and ears. Window at far end of the corridor. Corridor spans from left foreground diagonally to the right in the distance. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Gallery label | Lewis Carroll and his contemporaries referred to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as a fairy tale. Potter recalled receiving a copy of the book or its sequel when she was about six (Through the Looking-Glass was published that year – 1872). She found herself ‘immediately…absorbed’ by John Tenniel’s illustrations, and the story evidently inspired her. The White Rabbit behind Bill looks familiar in his blue coat.(November 2019) |
| 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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| Literary reference | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II |
| Associated object | LC.21/A/2(b) (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.45, cat. no. 5.4(a) |
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| Library number | LC 21/A/2(a) |
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| Record created | July 19, 2013 |
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