Two sketches: a path through trees and cottage with trees and distant hills
Drawing
1899-1910 (drawn)
1899-1910 (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.
Beatrix Potter made a number of watercolours and sketches of Devon. This sheet is undated but Beatrix Potter is known to have visited Sidmouth on a number of occasions, including in March 1899, April 1901, April 1902, September 1904 (possibly), and Easter 1910, so it quite possibly originates from one of these trips. The sheet has been folded in half to allow for two separate upright compositions, loosely drawn in pencil with grey wash.
Beatrix Potter made a number of watercolours and sketches of Devon. This sheet is undated but Beatrix Potter is known to have visited Sidmouth on a number of occasions, including in March 1899, April 1901, April 1902, September 1904 (possibly), and Easter 1910, so it quite possibly originates from one of these trips. The sheet has been folded in half to allow for two separate upright compositions, loosely drawn in pencil with grey wash.
Object details
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| Title | Two sketches: a path through trees and cottage with trees and distant hills (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | pencil and grey wash on paper |
| Brief description | Pencil and grey wash drawings of a path through trees (left) and a cottage with trees and distant hills (right), drawn by Beatrix Potter at Sidmouth; Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.602 |
| Physical description | A sheet folded in half with two pencil and wash monochrome sketches; to the left a study of a path through trees with a gate in the left foreground; to the right a study of a cottage with trees either side and hills beyond. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'Sidmouth' (inscribed in pencil by the artist, lower right) |
| 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. |
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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. Beatrix Potter made a number of watercolours and sketches of Devon. This sheet is undated but Beatrix Potter is known to have visited Sidmouth on a number of occasions, including in March 1899, April 1901, April 1902, September 1904 (possibly), and Easter 1910, so it quite possibly originates from one of these trips. The sheet has been folded in half to allow for two separate upright compositions, loosely drawn in pencil with grey wash. |
| 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.64; no.602
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.64; no.602 |
| Other number | LB.602 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
| Collection | |
| Library number | BP.346 |
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| Record created | June 26, 2015 |
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