Drawing
1910 (drawn)
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Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) is one of the world's best-loved children's authors and illustrators. She wrote the majority of the twenty-three Original Peter Rabbit Books between 1901 and 1913. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale.
Funded partly by the financial success of the first of her little books, Potter began to buy a number of working farms within the Lake District. With the prospect of war looming she was strongly against the Liberal government's proposal that farm horses may be subject to conscription if conflict arose. Potter relied on one horse for ploughing her fields at her personal property of Hill Top farm. Edmund Evans Ltd. printed over 1000 of the leaflets 'A shortage of horses' for Potter and she sent them out to contacts within the farming industry shortly after the government's re-election. The 1910 election and its immediate aftermath saw Beatrix’s first and final application of her illustrative talents within the realm of national politics. It was not however the last of her ventures into the local politics of the Lake District.
Funded partly by the financial success of the first of her little books, Potter began to buy a number of working farms within the Lake District. With the prospect of war looming she was strongly against the Liberal government's proposal that farm horses may be subject to conscription if conflict arose. Potter relied on one horse for ploughing her fields at her personal property of Hill Top farm. Edmund Evans Ltd. printed over 1000 of the leaflets 'A shortage of horses' for Potter and she sent them out to contacts within the farming industry shortly after the government's re-election. The 1910 election and its immediate aftermath saw Beatrix’s first and final application of her illustrative talents within the realm of national politics. It was not however the last of her ventures into the local politics of the Lake District.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink over pencil |
| Brief description | Drawing, three horses pulling a plough, probably for 1910 shortage of horses campaign, black ink over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Great Britain, probably 1910. Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.1849 |
| Physical description | Drawing in pen and ink over pencil of three horses pulling a plough, progressing up a slight hill from right to left of the picture. One farm labourer in front and one behind. Ploughed field in foreground, birds behind the plough and hills in background. Black line border surrounds scene. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | '/ en Ledge / ass 1895' (Watermark.) |
| Credit line | Linder Bequest [plus object number; written on labels on the same line as the object number] |
| Object history | Drawn by Beatrix Potter, possibly in 1910 but rejected for final 'The shortage of horses' campaign leaflet printed in February 1910. Acquired by the V&A from Leslie Linder (1904-1973) in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest, a collection of ca. 2150 watercolours, drawings, literary manuscripts, correspondence, books, photographs, and other memorabilia associated with Beatrix Potter and her family. |
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| Summary | Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) is one of the world's best-loved children's authors and illustrators. She wrote the majority of the twenty-three Original Peter Rabbit Books between 1901 and 1913. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale. Funded partly by the financial success of the first of her little books, Potter began to buy a number of working farms within the Lake District. With the prospect of war looming she was strongly against the Liberal government's proposal that farm horses may be subject to conscription if conflict arose. Potter relied on one horse for ploughing her fields at her personal property of Hill Top farm. Edmund Evans Ltd. printed over 1000 of the leaflets 'A shortage of horses' for Potter and she sent them out to contacts within the farming industry shortly after the government's re-election. The 1910 election and its immediate aftermath saw Beatrix’s first and final application of her illustrative talents within the realm of national politics. It was not however the last of her ventures into the local politics of the Lake District. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Hobbs, Anne Stevenson, and Joyce Irene Whalley, eds. Beatrix Potter: the V & A collection : the Leslie Linder bequest of Beatrix Potter material : watercolours, drawings, manuscripts, books, photographs and memorabilia. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985.
p.199, cat. no. 1849 |
| Other number | LB.1849 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
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| Library number | BP.351(a) |
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| Record created | October 7, 2013 |
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