Jeremy Fisher dining on grasshopper with Sir Isaac Newton and Mr Ptolemy Tortoise: preparatory drawing for The tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Drawing
1906 (drawn)
1906 (drawn)
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Drawing in pencil and pen and ink of three animals dining at a rectangular table. On the left is a frog in a long coat, in the centre with its back to the viewer a newt also wearing a long military style coat, in the background on the right is a large tortoise. Frog is shown with knife and fork in its front legs over some sketchily defined food on the table. All sketchily drawn, only frog and newt and parts of their chairs in ink. Surrounded by pencil oval. Grasshopper drawn very faintly outside of oval.
Object details
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| Title | Jeremy Fisher dining on grasshopper with Sir Isaac Newton and Mr Ptolemy Tortoise: preparatory drawing for The tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil and pen and ink on paper |
| Brief description | Drawing, Jeremy Fisher dining on grasshopper with Sir Isaac Newton and Mr Ptolemy Tortoise: preparatory drawing for The tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, pencil and pen and ink, by Beatrix Potter, Great Britain, probably 1906, Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.841 |
| Physical description | Drawing in pencil and pen and ink of three animals dining at a rectangular table. On the left is a frog in a long coat, in the centre with its back to the viewer a newt also wearing a long military style coat, in the background on the right is a large tortoise. Frog is shown with knife and fork in its front legs over some sketchily defined food on the table. All sketchily drawn, only frog and newt and parts of their chairs in ink. Surrounded by pencil oval. Grasshopper drawn very faintly outside of oval. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'grasshopper' 'newt' 'tortoise' (Inscribed in pencil close to relevant depictions.) |
| Credit line | Linder Bequest [plus object number; written on labels on the same line as the object number] |
| Object history | Drawn by Beatrix Potter probably in 1906. Acquired by the V&A from Leslie Linder (1904-1973) in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest, a collection of ca. 2150 watercolours, drawings, literary manuscripts, correspondence, books, photographs, and other memorabilia associated with Beatrix Potter and her family. |
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| Other number | LB.841 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
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| Library number | BP.508(C) |
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| Record created | September 6, 2013 |
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