Kirkcudbright Bay
Watercolour
ca. 1899 (made)
ca. 1899 (made)
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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.
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.
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.
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Title | Kirkcudbright 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. |
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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. |
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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. 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. |
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Library number | BP.307 |
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Record created | August 5, 2015 |
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