A mouse in bed with a mole doctor in attendance
Drawing
August 1892 (drawn)
August 1892 (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.
The mole character in this humorous scene showing a visit from a doctor is a caricature of a Dr Culbard, who attended the Potter family in Scotland. Beatrix Potter described meeting the doctor in her journal entry for 20 August 1892 during a stay at Birnam in Perthshire:
‘Mamma went into Dunkeld with the pony, and, coming out of Miss Anderson’s shop, caught her heel and came down. She cut her elbow badly, to the bone. Went with her to Dr. Culbard, who was kind and very fat and snuffy.’
The mole character in this humorous scene showing a visit from a doctor is a caricature of a Dr Culbard, who attended the Potter family in Scotland. Beatrix Potter described meeting the doctor in her journal entry for 20 August 1892 during a stay at Birnam in Perthshire:
‘Mamma went into Dunkeld with the pony, and, coming out of Miss Anderson’s shop, caught her heel and came down. She cut her elbow badly, to the bone. Went with her to Dr. Culbard, who was kind and very fat and snuffy.’
Object details
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| Title | A mouse in bed with a mole doctor in attendance |
| Materials and techniques | pen and ink and pencil on paper |
| Brief description | Drawing of a mouse in a brass bedstead and a doctor - a mole - by Beatrix Potter, August 1892; Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.1025 |
| Physical description | A drawing of a mouse laying in bed, with a table and a medicine bottle beside it. The doctor - a mole - stands nearby. |
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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 while staying at Birnam, Perthshire, in 1892. 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. The mole character in this humorous scene showing a visit from a doctor is a caricature of a Dr Culbard, who attended the Potter family in Scotland. Beatrix Potter described meeting the doctor in her journal entry for 20 August 1892 during a stay at Birnam in Perthshire: ‘Mamma went into Dunkeld with the pony, and, coming out of Miss Anderson’s shop, caught her heel and came down. She cut her elbow badly, to the bone. Went with her to Dr. Culbard, who was kind and very fat and snuffy.’ |
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| Other number | LB.1025 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
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| Library number | BP.636(e) |
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| Record created | August 24, 2016 |
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