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Sidmouth or Lyme Regis

Drawing
1899-1910 (drawn)
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.

Beatrix Potter enjoyed sketching the British landscape in all seasons, capturing the different locations in England, Scotland and Wales that she visited with her parents prior to her marriage in 1913. She sketched this view of a lane through hilly countryside in pencil before working it up using pen and ink. The inscription in pencil to the right, ‘Sidmouth or Lyme Regis’, looks to be in Potter’s hand: she may have come back to the sketch at a later date unable to recollect exactly where it was made. Potter is recorded as having visited Lyme Regis in April 1904, while she visited Sidmouth on a number of occasions between 1899 and 1910.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSidmouth or Lyme Regis (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink over pencil on paper
Brief description
Pencil and pen and ink sketch of a track through hilly countryside, a view of Sidmouth or Lyme Regis drawn by Beatrix Potter in the period 1899-1910; Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.575.
Physical description
A pen and ink over pencil sketch of a road leading through hilly countryside, made on paper used in landscape format and inscribed in pencil 'Sidmouth or Lyme Regis'.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 145mm
  • Sheet width: 250mm
Style
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
'Sidmouth or Lyme Regis' (Inscribed in pencil lower right 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 at Lyme Regis or Sidmouth in the period 1899-1910. 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
Places 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.

Beatrix Potter enjoyed sketching the British landscape in all seasons, capturing the different locations in England, Scotland and Wales that she visited with her parents prior to her marriage in 1913. She sketched this view of a lane through hilly countryside in pencil before working it up using pen and ink. The inscription in pencil to the right, ‘Sidmouth or Lyme Regis’, looks to be in Potter’s hand: she may have come back to the sketch at a later date unable to recollect exactly where it was made. Potter is recorded as having visited Lyme Regis in April 1904, while she visited Sidmouth on a number of occasions between 1899 and 1910.
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.575 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.575.
Other number
LB.575 - Linder Bequest catalogue no.
Collection
Library number
BP.1045

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Record createdAugust 19, 2015
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