Candles, cutlery, a sugar bowl, teapot and other items of crockery dancing around a cake
Drawing
1900 (drawn)
1900 (drawn)
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Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) 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 made many imaginary drawings before she published her books. This sheet, completed in pen and ink on tracing paper, is a tracing she made of a watercolour and pen-and-ink drawing entitled 'Dicky's Cake Dance'. The watercolour was made on 20 December 1900. Potter gave the original drawing away - it was a fourth birthday present for her cousin, Richard Mallet, grandson of Sir Henry Roscoe - so made the tracing for herself.
Beatrix Potter made many imaginary drawings before she published her books. This sheet, completed in pen and ink on tracing paper, is a tracing she made of a watercolour and pen-and-ink drawing entitled 'Dicky's Cake Dance'. The watercolour was made on 20 December 1900. Potter gave the original drawing away - it was a fourth birthday present for her cousin, Richard Mallet, grandson of Sir Henry Roscoe - so made the tracing for herself.
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Title | Candles, cutlery, a sugar bowl, teapot and other items of crockery dancing around a cake |
Materials and techniques | pen and ink and pencil on tracing paper |
Brief description | Design on tracing paper showing candles, cutlery, a sugar bowl, teapot and other items of crockery dancing around a cake with candles - tracing of a drawing entitled 'Dicky's Cake Dance', drawn by Beatrix Potter on 20 December 1900; Linder Bequet cat. no. LB.1013. |
Physical description | A tracing or design executed on tracing paper: there is a large cake with candles in the centre, around which a teapot, tea cups, jugs, spoons and other items of crockery and cutlery dance; with holly leaves in the foreground. |
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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. |
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Summary | Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) 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 made many imaginary drawings before she published her books. This sheet, completed in pen and ink on tracing paper, is a tracing she made of a watercolour and pen-and-ink drawing entitled 'Dicky's Cake Dance'. The watercolour was made on 20 December 1900. Potter gave the original drawing away - it was a fourth birthday present for her cousin, Richard Mallet, grandson of Sir Henry Roscoe - so made the tracing for herself. |
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Other number | LB.1013 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
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Library number | BP.1013 |
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Record created | August 18, 2016 |
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