Drawing
April 1904 (drawn)
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Beatrix Potter 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 on extended summer holidays and she often took the opportunity to sketch the places she visited. This landscape sketch may have been made during a visit to the coastal town of Lyme Regis, which Beatrix Potter visited in April 1904, when she made some drawings of the town and its buildings. There is a pencil sketch of a mirror on the verso of this sheet.
The Potters’ visits to the West Country inspired some of Beatrix Potter’s writing: she conceived The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (published 1930) whilst staying in south Devon in 1883. The story’s setting is the ‘pretty little town’ of ‘Stymouth’ – a fictional blend of Sidmouth and Teignmouth in south Devon with Lyme Regis in Dorset.
Before her marriage in 1913, Beatrix Potter accompanied her family on extended summer holidays and she often took the opportunity to sketch the places she visited. This landscape sketch may have been made during a visit to the coastal town of Lyme Regis, which Beatrix Potter visited in April 1904, when she made some drawings of the town and its buildings. There is a pencil sketch of a mirror on the verso of this sheet.
The Potters’ visits to the West Country inspired some of Beatrix Potter’s writing: she conceived The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (published 1930) whilst staying in south Devon in 1883. The story’s setting is the ‘pretty little town’ of ‘Stymouth’ – a fictional blend of Sidmouth and Teignmouth in south Devon with Lyme Regis in Dorset.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pencil on paper. |
| Brief description | Pen and ink over pencil drawing of a field with a hedgerow and trees inscribed 'Lyme Regis?' (recto) and pencil sketch of a mirror (verso) by Beatrix Potter, thought to date from April 1904. Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.576. |
| Physical description | Pencil drawing of a field with a hedgerow and trees inscribed 'Lyme Regis?' (recto) and pencil sketch of a mirror (verso). |
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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. |
| Summary | Beatrix Potter 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 on extended summer holidays and she often took the opportunity to sketch the places she visited. This landscape sketch may have been made during a visit to the coastal town of Lyme Regis, which Beatrix Potter visited in April 1904, when she made some drawings of the town and its buildings. There is a pencil sketch of a mirror on the verso of this sheet. The Potters’ visits to the West Country inspired some of Beatrix Potter’s writing: she conceived The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (published 1930) whilst staying in south Devon in 1883. The story’s setting is the ‘pretty little town’ of ‘Stymouth’ – a fictional blend of Sidmouth and Teignmouth in south Devon with Lyme Regis in Dorset. |
| 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.576
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.576 |
| Other number | LB.576 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
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| Library number | BP.1024 |
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