Autumn
Watercolour
ca.1880
ca.1880
| Artist/Maker |
Drawing in watercolour over pencil of a collection of leaves in greens, reds and browns on a brown-mauve background. Leaves are more concentrated towards the right side of the picture. Some shadows cast.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Autumn (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour over pencil, writing in sepia ink on paper |
| Brief description | Drawing, Autumn, watercolour over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Great Britain, ca.1880, Linder Collection object no. LC.10.B.1, catalogue no. 1.17 |
| Physical description | Drawing in watercolour over pencil of a collection of leaves in greens, reds and browns on a brown-mauve background. Leaves are more concentrated towards the right side of the picture. Some shadows cast. |
| Dimensions |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'Autumn' (In decorative, detached lettering in sepia ink.) |
| 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. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| 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.8, cat. no. 1.17 |
| Other number | LOAN:LINDER TRUST.71-1994 - Previous Loan Number |
| Collection | |
| Library number | LC 10/B/1 |
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| Record created | May 23, 2013 |
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