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Watercolour

11/06/1911 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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.


Object details

Categories
Object type
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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 250mm
  • Width: 175mm
Size of paper.
Production typeUnique
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.
Subjects depicted
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.
Collection
Library number
BP.1046

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Record createdOctober 17, 2013
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