View from Camfield Place
Watercolour
09/12/1884
09/12/1884
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Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) visited Camfield Place in Hertfordshire, the country home of her paternal grandparents, regularly as a girl and young woman. Writing in her journal she called it ‘the place I love best in the world’. Here, she has captured the view from the house.
Beatrix Potter 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.
Beatrix Potter 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.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on paper |
| Brief description | Watercolour study made by Beatrix Potter of a view seen from Camfield Place on 9 December 1884. |
| Physical description | A watercolour drawing of a misty landscape, seen through trees from the corner of a terrace, with a plinth and ornamental pot in the foreground. The cloudy sky makes up the upper three quarters of this landscape format composition. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'Camfield. Decem 9th 1884' (Inscribed in ink upper left verso.) |
| 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 Camfield Place, 9 December 1884. 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) visited Camfield Place in Hertfordshire, the country home of her paternal grandparents, regularly as a girl and young woman. Writing in her journal she called it ‘the place I love best in the world’. Here, she has captured the view from the house. Beatrix Potter 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. |
| 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.58; no.530
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.58; no.530 |
| Other number | LB.530 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
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| Library number | BP.300 |
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| Record created | March 6, 2015 |
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