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Watercolour

1905 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Drawing in watercolour, bodycolour and pen and ink of a rabbit in a blue dress, pink shoes and white half apron with a large pink bow just visible tied behind. She is pouring three red and green apples from her apron into a terra cotta pot which is already filled with more apples. Beer and cider kegs to the right with bottles of wine with homemade stickers on in the foreground, three more apples and straw. Jars, dishes and bottles on shelves, some wrapped in straw, herbs hang from ceiling, brass jug on stool and candle-lantern in background. Yellow flag stone floor. Palette is of browns, reds and yellows. Image contained within a black line border.

Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Watercolour, bodycolour and pen and ink on paper
Brief description
Drawing, Cecily Parsley making cider, design later redrawn for Cecily Parsley's nursery rhymes (1922), watercolour, bodycolour and pen and ink, by Beatrix Potter, Great Britain, possibly 1905, Linder Collection object no. LC.30.B.2, catalogue no. 4.11
Physical description
Drawing in watercolour, bodycolour and pen and ink of a rabbit in a blue dress, pink shoes and white half apron with a large pink bow just visible tied behind. She is pouring three red and green apples from her apron into a terra cotta pot which is already filled with more apples. Beer and cider kegs to the right with bottles of wine with homemade stickers on in the foreground, three more apples and straw. Jars, dishes and bottles on shelves, some wrapped in straw, herbs hang from ceiling, brass jug on stool and candle-lantern in background. Yellow flag stone floor. Palette is of browns, reds and yellows. Image contained within a black line border.
Dimensions
  • Height: 191mm
  • Width: 225mm
Size of paper.
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
'Beatrix Potter - ' (Signed in pencil at bottom right, outside of the border.)
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.
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Bibliographic references
  • 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.32, cat. no. 4.11
  • Potter, Beatrix. Cecily Parsley's nursery rhymes. London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, 1922. p.10
Other numbers
  • LOAN:LINDER TRUST.270-1994 - Previous Loan Number
  • 4.11 - Linder Collection catalogue no.
Collection
Library number
LC 30/B/2

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Record createdSeptember 3, 2013
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