A gate leading into a wood
Drawing
ca. 1894 (drawn)
ca. 1894 (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. The family's favourite locations included Scotland and the Lake District. Some of Potter's landscape watercolours were made with the backgrounds of the illustrations for her ‘little books’ in mind, but most seem to record the landscapes she visited as independent exercises in drawing. The Potter scholar Leslie Linder thought this pencil and wash drawing might relate to her stay in Lennel in the Scottish borders in 1894: a number of studies made during the trip demonstrate a similar brownish palette. However, the location remains unidentified and similar drawings in the Linder Bequest of woodlands bordered by fences and a gate made near Keswick may also be suggestive of a link.
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. The family's favourite locations included Scotland and the Lake District. Some of Potter's landscape watercolours were made with the backgrounds of the illustrations for her ‘little books’ in mind, but most seem to record the landscapes she visited as independent exercises in drawing. The Potter scholar Leslie Linder thought this pencil and wash drawing might relate to her stay in Lennel in the Scottish borders in 1894: a number of studies made during the trip demonstrate a similar brownish palette. However, the location remains unidentified and similar drawings in the Linder Bequest of woodlands bordered by fences and a gate made near Keswick may also be suggestive of a link.
Object details
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| Title | A gate leading into a wood (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | brown wash over pencil on paper |
| Brief description | Sketch of a gate leading into a wood by Beatrix Potter, ca. 1894; Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.573. |
| Physical description | A brown wash over pencil drawing of a gate leading into a woodland. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | (Inscribed on folder (no longer used) by Leslie Linder: 'Lennel 1894?') |
| 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. 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. The family's favourite locations included Scotland and the Lake District. Some of Potter's landscape watercolours were made with the backgrounds of the illustrations for her ‘little books’ in mind, but most seem to record the landscapes she visited as independent exercises in drawing. The Potter scholar Leslie Linder thought this pencil and wash drawing might relate to her stay in Lennel in the Scottish borders in 1894: a number of studies made during the trip demonstrate a similar brownish palette. However, the location remains unidentified and similar drawings in the Linder Bequest of woodlands bordered by fences and a gate made near Keswick may also be suggestive of a link. |
| 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.573
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.573 |
| Other number | LB.573 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
| Collection | |
| Library number | BP.1070 |
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| Record created | September 30, 2015 |
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