Study of a stream with wooden posts and boulders
Watercolour
ca.1900-1913 (made)
ca.1900-1913 (made)
| Artist/Maker |
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, capturing the different locations in England, Scotland and Wales that she visited with her parents prior to her marriage in 1913. This sheet sees her make a study of a stream surrounded by lush vegetation using a vivid palette. The note she has added to the sketch, ‘too dark’, reveals something of her artistic process. She sometimes used this kind of landscape sketch as an element of the background in one of her book illustrations.
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. This sheet sees her make a study of a stream surrounded by lush vegetation using a vivid palette. The note she has added to the sketch, ‘too dark’, reveals something of her artistic process. She sometimes used this kind of landscape sketch as an element of the background in one of her book illustrations.
Object details
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| Title | Study of a stream with wooden posts and boulders (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | watercolour over pencil on paper |
| Brief description | Watercolour over pencil study of a stream with wooden posts and boulders drawn by Beatrix Potter, ca.1900-1913; Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.651. |
| Physical description | Study of a stream with five wooden posts and boulders, surrounded by vegetation. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'too dark' [with arrow pointing] (Inscribed in pencil by the artist, lower centre.) |
| 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. 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. This sheet sees her make a study of a stream surrounded by lush vegetation using a vivid palette. The note she has added to the sketch, ‘too dark’, reveals something of her artistic process. She sometimes used this kind of landscape sketch as an element of the background in one of her book illustrations. |
| 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.68; no.651
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.68; no.651 |
| Other number | LB.651 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
| Collection | |
| Library number | BP.977 |
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