A view over hills and valleys
Watercolour
ca. 1905 - ca. 1913 (drawn)
ca. 1905 - ca. 1913 (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.
This undated landscape sketch utilises an autumn palette of reds and greenish-browns. The subject has not been identified but the Potter scholar Leslie Linder considered the Newlands Valley in the Lake District a possibility. The presence of what looks to be a lake in the centre right of the composition and the rolling hills might also point towards the area around Esthwaite Water, where Hill Top was situated. Beatrix Potter first visited the Lake District aged sixteen when the family stayed at Wray Castle and over the next twenty years they spent many of their summers in the area. Following Beatrix Potter’s purchase of Hill Top in Near Sawrey in 1905 she made studies of Near Sawrey in all seasons.
This undated landscape sketch utilises an autumn palette of reds and greenish-browns. The subject has not been identified but the Potter scholar Leslie Linder considered the Newlands Valley in the Lake District a possibility. The presence of what looks to be a lake in the centre right of the composition and the rolling hills might also point towards the area around Esthwaite Water, where Hill Top was situated. Beatrix Potter first visited the Lake District aged sixteen when the family stayed at Wray Castle and over the next twenty years they spent many of their summers in the area. Following Beatrix Potter’s purchase of Hill Top in Near Sawrey in 1905 she made studies of Near Sawrey in all seasons.
Object details
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| Title | A view over hills and valleys (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | watercolour over pencil on paper |
| Brief description | Watercolour over pencil study of a view over hills and valleys by Beatrix Potter, ca. 1905 - ca. 1913; Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.584. |
| Physical description | A watercolour over pencil study of a view seen from a hill over the fields and valley below. There is a building in the lower left and, in the centre right, the edge of a lake. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | (Inscribed on folder (no longer used) by Leslie Linder: 'Newlands?') |
| 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 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. This undated landscape sketch utilises an autumn palette of reds and greenish-browns. The subject has not been identified but the Potter scholar Leslie Linder considered the Newlands Valley in the Lake District a possibility. The presence of what looks to be a lake in the centre right of the composition and the rolling hills might also point towards the area around Esthwaite Water, where Hill Top was situated. Beatrix Potter first visited the Lake District aged sixteen when the family stayed at Wray Castle and over the next twenty years they spent many of their summers in the area. Following Beatrix Potter’s purchase of Hill Top in Near Sawrey in 1905 she made studies of Near Sawrey in all seasons. |
| 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.62; no.584
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.62; no.584 |
| Other number | LB.584 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
| Collection | |
| Library number | BP.1077 |
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| Record created | September 30, 2015 |
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