A winter evening
Watercolour
1900 (drawn)
1900 (drawn)
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Drawing in watercolour over pencil of sitting room of Derwent Cottage, Winchelsea. Hearth with glowing fire, bellows, fire irons and rag rug. American clock and china on mantlepiece. Dark red walls with panelled dado and panelling on either side of the hearth, rush-seated bobbin-turned armchair with cushion and open door (centre background). Round table with patterned crimson cloth which is partly visible, matching rush-seated chair without arms, American wall clock and bureau.
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| Materials and techniques | Watercolour over pencil on paper |
| Brief description | Drawing, A winter evening, sitting room at Derwent Cottage, watercolour over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Winchelsea, ca. 1900, LC.2.A.1, catalogue no. 3.41 |
| Physical description | Drawing in watercolour over pencil of sitting room of Derwent Cottage, Winchelsea. Hearth with glowing fire, bellows, fire irons and rag rug. American clock and china on mantlepiece. Dark red walls with panelled dado and panelling on either side of the hearth, rush-seated bobbin-turned armchair with cushion and open door (centre background). Round table with patterned crimson cloth which is partly visible, matching rush-seated chair without arms, American wall clock and bureau. |
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| Production type | Unique |
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| Credit line | Given by the Linder Collection |
| Object history | Given by Leslie Linder (1904-1973) to the National Book League (now the Book Trust) in 1970 as part of a representative selection of Beatrix Potter's work. This selection, comprising 279 drawings and 38 early editions and now known as the Linder Collection, was formerly on long-term loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1989 and 2019 form the charitable trust, The Linder Trust. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Hobbs, Anne Stevenson (compiler). The Linder Collection of the works and drawings of Beatrix Potter: catalogue of works on paper. London: The Trustees of the Linder Collection, 1996 (1999 reprint).
p.23, catalogue no. 3.41 |
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| Accession number | LC 2/A/1 |
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| Record created | April 17, 2013 |
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