Primula Scotica
Watercolour
21/07/1902 (made)
21/07/1902 (made)
| Artist/Maker |
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.
Beatrix Potter made many studies of flowers and was keenly interested in natural history. These notes and life-size sketches show Potter recording the look and characteristics of Primula Scotica, a plant with small purple flowers known as the Scottish primrose. Potter notes that the plant she has drawn came from Stromness, Orkney and has added the comments: ‘hard leaf & very strong scent like the garden auricula’.
Beatrix Potter made many studies of flowers and was keenly interested in natural history. These notes and life-size sketches show Potter recording the look and characteristics of Primula Scotica, a plant with small purple flowers known as the Scottish primrose. Potter notes that the plant she has drawn came from Stromness, Orkney and has added the comments: ‘hard leaf & very strong scent like the garden auricula’.
Object details
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| Title | Primula Scotica (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | watercolour and pencil on card |
| Brief description | Watercolour with pencil studies of Primula Scotica, known as Scottish primrose, drawn by Beatrix Potter in July 1902; Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.244 |
| Physical description | Two small pencil and watercolour sketches of Primula Scotica with purple flowers and numerous pencil inscriptions on card. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'from Stromness / Orkney. July 21st 1902 / Natural size. Primula Scotica. / wild auricula - hard leaf & very strong scent like the garden auricula.' Note inscribed in pencil by the artist, centre and lower recto |
| Credit line | Linder Bequest [plus object number; written on labels on the same line as the object number] |
| Object history | Drawn by Beatrix Potter. July 21st 1902. 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. Beatrix Potter made many studies of flowers and was keenly interested in natural history. These notes and life-size sketches show Potter recording the look and characteristics of Primula Scotica, a plant with small purple flowers known as the Scottish primrose. Potter notes that the plant she has drawn came from Stromness, Orkney and has added the comments: ‘hard leaf & very strong scent like the garden auricula’. |
| 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.30; no.244
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.30; no.244 |
| Other number | LB.244 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
| Collection | |
| Library number | BP.359 |
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| Record created | May 1, 2015 |
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