'Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit'
Drawing
12/1893 (drawn)
12/1893 (drawn)
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Primary drawing in pencil of 'Brer rabbit' seen from behind, looking through an open wooden door in a stone-arched doorway at 'Brer Fox' who is lying incapacitated on a bed inside a room. Medicine bottle and glass on chair by bed, grass roof and foliage at front. Primary illustration enclosed in a rectangular frame in pen and ink over pencil, of 17 rabbits, some sitting alert, some crouching, some running. Primary image obscures the frame slightly at top right.
Object details
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| Title | 'Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit' (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil and pen and ink over pencil on paper |
| Brief description | Drawing, Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit, pencil and pen and ink over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Great Britain, 1893, Linder Collection object no. LC.8.A.1, cat. no. 5.9 |
| Physical description | Primary drawing in pencil of 'Brer rabbit' seen from behind, looking through an open wooden door in a stone-arched doorway at 'Brer Fox' who is lying incapacitated on a bed inside a room. Medicine bottle and glass on chair by bed, grass roof and foliage at front. Primary illustration enclosed in a rectangular frame in pen and ink over pencil, of 17 rabbits, some sitting alert, some crouching, some running. Primary image obscures the frame slightly at top right. |
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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.47, cat. no. 5.9 |
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| Library number | LC 8/A/1 |
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| Record created | May 9, 2013 |
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