Aeneid
Manuscript
ca.1880 (written)
ca.1880 (written)
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Opening two lines of Aeneid in English on a strip torn from an exercise boo, scansion marks inserted in pencil.
Object details
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Title | Aeneid (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Ink and pencil on paper |
Brief description | Manuscript items: one torn piece of lined paper with seven lines of Virgil's Aeneid in Latin, black ink, by Beatrix Potter, Great Britain, circa 1880, Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.84 |
Physical description | Opening two lines of Aeneid in English on a strip torn from an exercise boo, scansion marks inserted in 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 | 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. |
Literary reference | Aeneid, Virgil, Book 1 |
Associated object | BP.563 (Series) |
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.17, cat. no. LB.84 |
Other number | LB.84 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
Collection | |
Library number | BP.562 |
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Record created | February 27, 2014 |
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