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Drawing

1904 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Beatrix Potter (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (drawn)

Drawing in pen and ink of a mouse with its body facing to the right. Head turned back to the left. Alert expression and tail comes round in front of body. Some traces of ink smudges on paper.


Object details

Categories
Animals and Wildlife
Drawings
Books
Illustration
Children & Childhood
Woman Artist
Object type
drawing
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink on paper
Ink
Paper (Fiber Product)
Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description
Drawing, title page design for The tale of two bad mice, pen and ink, by Beatrix Potter, Great Britain, probably 1903, Linder Collection object no. LC.25.A.1(b), catalogue no. 4.76(a)
Physical description
Drawing in pen and ink of a mouse with its body facing to the right. Head turned back to the left. Alert expression and tail comes round in front of body. Some traces of ink smudges on paper.
Dimensions
  • Height: 118mm
  • Width: 73mm
Size of paper. Attached to card as right hand image, alongside LC.25.A.1a. Card measures 171 x 264 mm.
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'reduce to 1 3/4" high' ' 1 3[/]4' (In ink (by Norman Warne). Measurement is accompanied by vertical size indicator line to right of illustration.)
  • 'We like this one' 'NDW' [all underlined] (By Norman Warne. All in red.)
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
Associated object
LC.25/A/1(a) (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.44, cat. no. 4.76(a)
  • Potter, Beatrix. The tale of two bad mice. London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1904. title page
Other numbers
  • LOAN:LINDER TRUST.224-1994 - Previous Loan Number
  • 4.76(a) - Linder Collection catalogue no.
Collection
National Art Library
Library number
LC 25/A/1(b)

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Record createdAugust 8, 2013
Record URL
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