Monk Coniston moor
Watercolour
16th November 1909 (drawn)
16th November 1909 (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.
Beatrix Potter enjoyed sketching the British landscape in all seasons. She first visited the Lake District aged sixteen when the family stayed at Wray Castle and over the next twenty years the family spent many of their summers there. She cemented her connection to the area by purchasing Hill Top, a house by her favourite lake, Esthwaite Water, in 1905, but it was not until her marriage to Lakeland solicitor William Heelis in 1913 that the Lake District became her permanent home. Potter made this study over Monk Coniston Moor on a misty day in 1909. Many years later, in 1930, she purchased the 5000-acre Monk Coniston Estate in order to preserve it; like the rest of Potter's land the estate eventually went to the National Trust.
Beatrix Potter enjoyed sketching the British landscape in all seasons. She first visited the Lake District aged sixteen when the family stayed at Wray Castle and over the next twenty years the family spent many of their summers there. She cemented her connection to the area by purchasing Hill Top, a house by her favourite lake, Esthwaite Water, in 1905, but it was not until her marriage to Lakeland solicitor William Heelis in 1913 that the Lake District became her permanent home. Potter made this study over Monk Coniston Moor on a misty day in 1909. Many years later, in 1930, she purchased the 5000-acre Monk Coniston Estate in order to preserve it; like the rest of Potter's land the estate eventually went to the National Trust.
Object details
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| Title | Monk Coniston moor (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour over pencil on paper |
| Brief description | Watercolour over pencil view of Monk Coniston Moor by Beatrix Potter, 16th November 1909; Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.541. |
| Physical description | A watercolour over pencil view of moorland, with a lake seen in the middle distance and a hill seen through mist in the far distance. |
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| Production type | Unique |
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| 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 Monk Coniston Moor, 16th November 1909. 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. Beatrix Potter enjoyed sketching the British landscape in all seasons. She first visited the Lake District aged sixteen when the family stayed at Wray Castle and over the next twenty years the family spent many of their summers there. She cemented her connection to the area by purchasing Hill Top, a house by her favourite lake, Esthwaite Water, in 1905, but it was not until her marriage to Lakeland solicitor William Heelis in 1913 that the Lake District became her permanent home. Potter made this study over Monk Coniston Moor on a misty day in 1909. Many years later, in 1930, she purchased the 5000-acre Monk Coniston Estate in order to preserve it; like the rest of Potter's land the estate eventually went to the National Trust. |
| 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.59; no.541
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.59; no.541 |
| Other number | LB.541 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
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| Library number | BP.1057 |
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| Record created | October 1, 2015 |
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