Drawing
30/01/1900 (drawn)
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Drawing in pencil of sitting room interior. Large corner cupboard in right hand corner of room. One door of cupboard is open, revealing china. On right hand wall is a window with blind partly pulled down, lace curtains and pelmet and plant on ledge. In front are a rush-seated bobbin-turned chair and an oblong table with a cloth and a book upon them. Panelled dado visible across the room and wooden beam above. Left hand side of the room hazily sketched.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pencil on paper with punched filing holes (possibly from a 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.3, cat. no. 3.42 |
| Physical description | Drawing in pencil of sitting room interior. Large corner cupboard in right hand corner of room. One door of cupboard is open, revealing china. On right hand wall is a window with blind partly pulled down, lace curtains and pelmet and plant on ledge. In front are a rush-seated bobbin-turned chair and an oblong table with a cloth and a book upon them. Panelled dado visible across the room and wooden beam above. Left hand side of the room hazily sketched. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'Jan 30th. 1900' Note In pencil in right hand corner. |
| 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, cat. no. 3.42 |
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| Accession number | LC 11/A/3 |
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| Record created | May 24, 2013 |
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