Drawing
05/02/1900 (drawn)
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Drawing in pencil of a rear view of a rush-seated bobbin-turned armchair casting a small shadow to the right and surrounded by two smaller studies, one of the same view and one side on. Below is a drawing of an eighteenth or nineteenth century, Dutch or English, pewter mustard or spice pot with a lid and handle. Image is drawn at a right angle to the chair and there is a significant shadow cast by the object.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pencil on card with punched filing holes (possibly removed from a looseleaf sketchbook) |
| Brief description | Drawing of a chair and pewter mustard or spice pot, pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Derwent Cottage, Winchelsea, 1900, Linder Collection object no. LC.11.B.2, catalogue no. 3.28 |
| Physical description | Drawing in pencil of a rear view of a rush-seated bobbin-turned armchair casting a small shadow to the right and surrounded by two smaller studies, one of the same view and one side on. Below is a drawing of an eighteenth or nineteenth century, Dutch or English, pewter mustard or spice pot with a lid and handle. Image is drawn at a right angle to the chair and there is a significant shadow cast by the object. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'Winchelsea / Feb 5th 1900' Note In pencil, top 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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| 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. 3.28 |
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| Accession number | LC 11/B/2 |
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| Record created | May 30, 2013 |
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