Two rabbits in hats and coats with walking sticks walking through snow
Watercolour
1890 (made)
1890 (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.
In 1890 Beatrix Potter and her brother, Bertram, hoped to buy a printing machine. Bertram suggested that Beatrix sell her imaginary drawings to raise funds. The printer Hildesheimer & Faulkner purchased six designs from Beatrix and printed them as Christmas and New Year cards. This watercolour drawing of two rabbits walking through snow is a design made for Hildesheimer & Faulkner. A variant of the design was later used for the frontispiece of Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes (1917).
In 1890 Beatrix Potter and her brother, Bertram, hoped to buy a printing machine. Bertram suggested that Beatrix sell her imaginary drawings to raise funds. The printer Hildesheimer & Faulkner purchased six designs from Beatrix and printed them as Christmas and New Year cards. This watercolour drawing of two rabbits walking through snow is a design made for Hildesheimer & Faulkner. A variant of the design was later used for the frontispiece of Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes (1917).
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| Title | Two rabbits in hats and coats with walking sticks walking through snow (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | watercolour and gouache on paper |
| Brief description | Watercolour drawing of two rabbits in hats and coats with walking sticks walking through the snow, a design for a greetings card for Hildesheimer & Faulkner; drawn by Beatrix Potter, probably in 1890; Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.1768 |
| Physical description | A watercolour drawing of two rabbits walking through snow with walking sticks, snow, a hedge and a fence in the background. The rabbit on the left wears a blue hat and a greyish brown coat with red mittens. The rabbit on the right wears a blue hat and a dark grey coat with a red scarf and mittens. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'H. B. P.' (inscribed in ink to the lower right of the design by the artist) |
| Credit line | Linder Bequest [plus object number; written on labels on the same line as the object number] |
| Object history | Drawn by Beatrix Potter in around 1890. 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. In 1890 Beatrix Potter and her brother, Bertram, hoped to buy a printing machine. Bertram suggested that Beatrix sell her imaginary drawings to raise funds. The printer Hildesheimer & Faulkner purchased six designs from Beatrix and printed them as Christmas and New Year cards. This watercolour drawing of two rabbits walking through snow is a design made for Hildesheimer & Faulkner. A variant of the design was later used for the frontispiece of Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes (1917). |
| 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.191; no.1768
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.191; no.1768 |
| Other number | LB.1768 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
| Collection | |
| Library number | BP.1475 |
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