Drawing
02/02/1900 (drawn)
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Drawing in pencil of sitting room from a side view. Against left wall stands rush-seated bobbin-turned armchair in foreground in front of bureau with candlestick on top with two small drawers and pad feet, american wall clock above, flanked by two pictures. Another chair just visible behind bureau. Opposite wall has panelled dado and an internal door
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pencil on paper with punched filing holes (possibly removed from loose-leaf sketchbook) |
| Brief description | Drawing of a sitting room (unfinished), pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Derwent Cottage, Winchelsea, 1900, Linder Collection object no. LC.11.A.2, cat. no. 3.46 |
| Physical description | Drawing in pencil of sitting room from a side view. Against left wall stands rush-seated bobbin-turned armchair in foreground in front of bureau with candlestick on top with two small drawers and pad feet, american wall clock above, flanked by two pictures. Another chair just visible behind bureau. Opposite wall has panelled dado and an internal door |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'Winchelsea / Feb 2nd. 1900' Note In pencil in bottom left. |
| 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.24, cat. no. 3.46 |
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| Accession number | LC 11/A/2 |
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| Record created | May 24, 2013 |
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