Watercolour
11/06/1911 (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.
This evocative watercolour sketch reveals Potter's fondness for recording the landscapes around her. Her family would take long 3 month annual summer breaks, initially staying in Scotland before discovering the Lake District. However, this landscape is of the countryside around Long Melford, sketched on a holiday spent in Suffolk.
This evocative watercolour sketch reveals Potter's fondness for recording the landscapes around her. Her family would take long 3 month annual summer breaks, initially staying in Scotland before discovering the Lake District. However, this landscape is of the countryside around Long Melford, sketched on a holiday spent in Suffolk.
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Materials and techniques | Watercolour and pencil on paper |
Brief description | Drawings of meadow with trees in the background (recto), watercolour over pencil, and faint outline sketch of fields (verso), pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Long Melford, 1911, Linder Collection cat. no. LB.574 |
Physical description | Drawings of meadow with trees in the background (recto), watercolour over pencil, and faint outline sketch of fields (verso), pencil. |
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Production type | Unique |
Credit line | Linder Bequest [plus object number; written on labels on the same line as the object number] |
Object history | Drawn by Beatrix Potter at Long Melford (inscribed on folder by Leslie Linder) 11 June 1911. 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. This evocative watercolour sketch reveals Potter's fondness for recording the landscapes around her. Her family would take long 3 month annual summer breaks, initially staying in Scotland before discovering the Lake District. However, this landscape is of the countryside around Long Melford, sketched on a holiday spent in Suffolk. |
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.61, cat. no. 574 |
Other number | LB.574 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
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Library number | BP.1046 |
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Record created | October 17, 2013 |
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