"Gentlemen came every day"
Watercolour
ca.1902 (drawn)
ca.1902 (drawn)
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Drawing in watercolour and pen and ink over pencil with some touches of white gouache for corrections. Composition of two rabbits on a settle by a fire. Rabbit on the left is wearing a muddy yellow/green coat and dark yellow striped waistcoat and holds a glass with yellow liquid in its right forepaw and smokes a pipe with its left. The rabbit on the right wears a purple coat, blue/purple waistcoat and shirt with ruffles at the neck and wrists and holds a longer pipe in its left paw, gesticulates with its right, and is more slouched in the seat. Smoke indicated in pen and ink. Glass and jug on settle beside the pair. Fireplace on left with fire irons, chestnuts on hearth and some on a blue-rimmed plate on the floor infront. Partly visible behind the settle are a North Country longcase clock with flambeau finials and a dresser with plates, jugs and tankards. Terra cotta coloured stone floor slabs. Black ink line frame ruled around image.
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| Title | "Gentlemen came every day" (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour and pen and ink over pencil with some touches of white gouache on paper |
| Brief description | Drawing, "Gentlemen came every day", design used as basis for frontispiece for Cecily Parsley's nursery rhymes (1922), watercolour and pen and ink over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Great Britain, circa 1902, Linder Collection object no. LC.30.B.1, catalogue no. 4.10 |
| Physical description | Drawing in watercolour and pen and ink over pencil with some touches of white gouache for corrections. Composition of two rabbits on a settle by a fire. Rabbit on the left is wearing a muddy yellow/green coat and dark yellow striped waistcoat and holds a glass with yellow liquid in its right forepaw and smokes a pipe with its left. The rabbit on the right wears a purple coat, blue/purple waistcoat and shirt with ruffles at the neck and wrists and holds a longer pipe in its left paw, gesticulates with its right, and is more slouched in the seat. Smoke indicated in pen and ink. Glass and jug on settle beside the pair. Fireplace on left with fire irons, chestnuts on hearth and some on a blue-rimmed plate on the floor infront. Partly visible behind the settle are a North Country longcase clock with flambeau finials and a dresser with plates, jugs and tankards. Terra cotta coloured stone floor slabs. Black ink line frame ruled around image. |
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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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| Library number | LC 30/B/1 |
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| Record created | September 3, 2013 |
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