Drawing
01/10/1891 (drawn)
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Drawing in pen and ink over pencil with watercolour (grey washes) in portrait format. Viewpoint is close up approaching the half-landing. Banisters and newel post with Jacobean finial. Two upright chairs on the half landing with lace curtains at the window above.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Watercolour grey wash and pen and ink over pencil on paper |
| Brief description | Drawing of staircase in Bedwell Lodge, in pen and ink with watercolour grey washes over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Hertfordshire, 1891, Linder Collection object no. LC.2.A.2, catalogue no. 3.31 |
| Physical description | Drawing in pen and ink over pencil with watercolour (grey washes) in portrait format. Viewpoint is close up approaching the half-landing. Banisters and newel post with Jacobean finial. Two upright chairs on the half landing with lace curtains at the window above. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'HBP/Oct 1st.91' Note In pencil on bottom right |
| 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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| Associated object | LC.12/B/2 (Series) |
| 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.21, cat no. 3.31
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| Accession number | LC 2/A/2 |
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| Record created | April 17, 2013 |
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