A lady being handed grapes by a page in an interior
Watercolour
June 1885 (made)
June 1885 (made)
| Artist/Maker |
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.
The interior shown in this detailed study is thought to be 2 Bolton Gardens, the Potter family home in South Kensington. The journal Beatrix Potter kept as a girl and young woman tells us that she was visiting art exhibitions and looking at paintings around the time of making this picture; it may have been inspired by paintings or prints that she had seen, the figures not appearing to be drawn from life. Potter was never as comfortable with drawing figures as she was with natural history subjects.
The interior shown in this detailed study is thought to be 2 Bolton Gardens, the Potter family home in South Kensington. The journal Beatrix Potter kept as a girl and young woman tells us that she was visiting art exhibitions and looking at paintings around the time of making this picture; it may have been inspired by paintings or prints that she had seen, the figures not appearing to be drawn from life. Potter was never as comfortable with drawing figures as she was with natural history subjects.
Object details
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| Title | A lady being handed grapes by a page in an interior (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | watercolour and gouache on paper |
| Brief description | Watercolour and gouache study of an interior with a lady in medieval attire being handed grapes by a page, drawn by Beatrix Potter in June 1885, Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.688 |
| Physical description | Two full-length figures in an interior, the lady taking grapes from a fruit platter held by a page. In the background framed pictures and a staircase can be seen. Watercolour with white gouache. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'June 85.' (inscribed in ink upper left recto by the artist) |
| Credit line | Linder Bequest [plus object number; written on labels on the same line as the object number] |
| Object history | Drawn by Beatrix Potter in June 1885. 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. The interior shown in this detailed study is thought to be 2 Bolton Gardens, the Potter family home in South Kensington. The journal Beatrix Potter kept as a girl and young woman tells us that she was visiting art exhibitions and looking at paintings around the time of making this picture; it may have been inspired by paintings or prints that she had seen, the figures not appearing to be drawn from life. Potter was never as comfortable with drawing figures as she was with natural history subjects. |
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| Other number | LB.688 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
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| Library number | BP.304 |
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| Record created | April 22, 2015 |
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