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Kirkcudbright Bay

Watercolour
ca. 1899 (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.

Before her marriage in 1913, Beatrix Potter accompanied her family to Scotland, Wales or the Lake District for extended summer holidays and she often took the opportunity to sketch the places she visited. It has been suggested that this watercolour landscape showing a field and bay with distant hills depicts Kirkcudbright Bay; a similar watercolour by Beatrix Potter, also with cows in the foreground, was made at Kirkcudbright Bay in September 1899.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleKirkcudbright Bay (generic title)
Materials and techniques
watercolour over pencil on paper
Brief description
Watercolour landscape believed to show Kirkcudbright Bay, made by Beatrix Potter ca.1899; Linder Bequest cat. no. 566
Physical description
A watercolour landscape with a field in the foreground with three cows in the lower right and a bay and distant hills beyond.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 175mm
  • Sheet width: 254mm
Style
Production typeUnique
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.
Subjects depicted
Place 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.

Before her marriage in 1913, Beatrix Potter accompanied her family to Scotland, Wales or the Lake District for extended summer holidays and she often took the opportunity to sketch the places she visited. It has been suggested that this watercolour landscape showing a field and bay with distant hills depicts Kirkcudbright Bay; a similar watercolour by Beatrix Potter, also with cows in the foreground, was made at Kirkcudbright Bay in September 1899.
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; no.566 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; no.566
Other number
LB.566 - Linder Bequest catalogue no.
Collection
Library number
BP.307

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Record createdAugust 5, 2015
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