The shortage of horses
Leaflet
1910 (made)
1910 (made)
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Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) is one of the world's best-loved children's authors and illustrators. She wrote the majority of the twenty-three Original Peter Rabbit Books between 1901 and 1913. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale.
Funded partly by the financial success of the first of her little books, Potter began to buy a number of working farms within the Lake District. With the prospect of war looming she was strongly against the Liberal government's proposal that farm horses may be subject to conscription if conflict arose. Potter relied on one horse for ploughing her fields at her personal property of Hill Top farm. Edmund Evans Ltd. printed over 1000 of these leaflets for Potter and she sent them out to contacts within the farming industry shortly after the government's re-election. The 1910 election and its immediate aftermath saw Beatrix’s first and final application of her illustrative talents within the realm of national politics. It was not however the last of her ventures intothe local politics of the Lake District.
Funded partly by the financial success of the first of her little books, Potter began to buy a number of working farms within the Lake District. With the prospect of war looming she was strongly against the Liberal government's proposal that farm horses may be subject to conscription if conflict arose. Potter relied on one horse for ploughing her fields at her personal property of Hill Top farm. Edmund Evans Ltd. printed over 1000 of these leaflets for Potter and she sent them out to contacts within the farming industry shortly after the government's re-election. The 1910 election and its immediate aftermath saw Beatrix’s first and final application of her illustrative talents within the realm of national politics. It was not however the last of her ventures intothe local politics of the Lake District.
Object details
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| Title | The shortage of horses (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Ink on paper |
| Brief description | Leaflet, The shortage of horses, printed by Edmund Evans Ltd., original drawings and text by Beatrix Potter, London, 1910, Linder Bequest cat. no. 1851 |
| Physical description | Leaflet formed by four pages produced through the folding of an individual sheet. P.1 Illustration of a horse and foal entering a hut. Title and text P.2 Text only P.3 Text only P.4 Text with sign-off 'Yours truly, NORTH COUNTRY FARMER' with illustration of a haycart pulled by one horse and four men working on the fields. |
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| Production type | small batch |
| Credit line | Linder Bequest [plus object number; written on labels on the same line as the object number] |
| Object history | Printed by Edmund Evans Ltd. in 1910 before the national election. 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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| Summary | Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) is one of the world's best-loved children's authors and illustrators. She wrote the majority of the twenty-three Original Peter Rabbit Books between 1901 and 1913. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale. Funded partly by the financial success of the first of her little books, Potter began to buy a number of working farms within the Lake District. With the prospect of war looming she was strongly against the Liberal government's proposal that farm horses may be subject to conscription if conflict arose. Potter relied on one horse for ploughing her fields at her personal property of Hill Top farm. Edmund Evans Ltd. printed over 1000 of these leaflets for Potter and she sent them out to contacts within the farming industry shortly after the government's re-election. The 1910 election and its immediate aftermath saw Beatrix’s first and final application of her illustrative talents within the realm of national politics. It was not however the last of her ventures intothe local politics of the Lake District. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Hobbs, Anne Stevenson, and Joyce Irene Whalley, eds. Beatrix Potter: the V & A collection : the Leslie Linder bequest of Beatrix Potter material : watercolours, drawings, manuscripts, books, photographs and memorabilia. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985.
p.199, cat. no. 1851 |
| Other number | LB.1851 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
| Collection | |
| Library number | BP.352 |
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| Record created | October 7, 2013 |
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