Drawing
1900 (drawn)
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Drawing in pencil of a dressing room. Bed-hangings or curtains to protect hanging clothes to the left. In front is a balloon back chair and a small round pedestal table with a possible microscope box upon it. Sash window with open shutters on facing wall. Small bow-legged dressing table with oval mirror on top in back right hand corner, in front of which is a rabbit lying on all its legs. Fireplace with rug in front. Pelmet and curtains at either side and mirror above. On the mantel piece is a clock under a glass cover and a peacock feather. A folding easy chair is in the right foreground.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pencil on paper |
| Brief description | Drawing of a dressing room interior, pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Derwent Cottage, Winchelsea, probably 1900, Linder Collection object no. LC.11.B.5, catalogue no. 3.50 |
| Physical description | Drawing in pencil of a dressing room. Bed-hangings or curtains to protect hanging clothes to the left. In front is a balloon back chair and a small round pedestal table with a possible microscope box upon it. Sash window with open shutters on facing wall. Small bow-legged dressing table with oval mirror on top in back right hand corner, in front of which is a rabbit lying on all its legs. Fireplace with rug in front. Pelmet and curtains at either side and mirror above. On the mantel piece is a clock under a glass cover and a peacock feather. A folding easy chair is in the right foreground. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| 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.25, cat. no. 3.50 |
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| Accession number | LC 11/B/5 |
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| Record created | May 30, 2013 |
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