Sketches for 'Tingle dingle dousy'
Drawing
ca.1905 (drawn)
ca.1905 (drawn)
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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.
This sheet is one of a group of sketches in the collection relating to the mouse protagonist of the play-rhyme ‘Tingle dingle dousy’, which is a variant of the popular nursery rhyme ‘Ding Dong Bell’. Potter wrote out the rhyme beneath one of her other sketches; see museum no. BP.629(a). The rhyme goes:
Tingle dingle dousy
Ding dong bell!
Laugh little mouse!
Pussy’s in the well!
Beatrix Potter had a keen interest in rhymes, which she adapted, wrote and illustrated. She worked on a book of rhymes in 1904-5, with the hopes that it would be published, so it is possible that her sketches for ‘Tingle dingle dousy’ date from around this time. Her publisher (Frederick Warne & Co.), however, was keen to keep up her successful stream of original tales, and after the death of Norman Warne, Beatrix’s editor and fiancé, in August 1905, the book was put to one side. Much later, in 1917, a developed version of the 1905 book of rhymes was published: Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes, followed by Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes in 1922.
This sheet is one of a group of sketches in the collection relating to the mouse protagonist of the play-rhyme ‘Tingle dingle dousy’, which is a variant of the popular nursery rhyme ‘Ding Dong Bell’. Potter wrote out the rhyme beneath one of her other sketches; see museum no. BP.629(a). The rhyme goes:
Tingle dingle dousy
Ding dong bell!
Laugh little mouse!
Pussy’s in the well!
Beatrix Potter had a keen interest in rhymes, which she adapted, wrote and illustrated. She worked on a book of rhymes in 1904-5, with the hopes that it would be published, so it is possible that her sketches for ‘Tingle dingle dousy’ date from around this time. Her publisher (Frederick Warne & Co.), however, was keen to keep up her successful stream of original tales, and after the death of Norman Warne, Beatrix’s editor and fiancé, in August 1905, the book was put to one side. Much later, in 1917, a developed version of the 1905 book of rhymes was published: Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes, followed by Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes in 1922.
Object details
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| Title | Sketches for 'Tingle dingle dousy' |
| Materials and techniques | pencil on paper |
| Brief description | Sketches relating to the rhyme 'Tingle dingle dousy' drawn by Beatrix Potter, ca.1905; Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.1089 |
| Physical description | Six sketches, each showing a mouse with its tail in the air. The sheet has a torn edge on the left, and was originally part of the same sheet as another sheet of studies for 'Tingle dingle dousy': museum number BP.629(f). |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Credit line | Linder Bequest [plus object number; written on labels on the same line as the object number] |
| Object history | 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. This sheet is one of a group of sketches in the collection relating to the mouse protagonist of the play-rhyme ‘Tingle dingle dousy’, which is a variant of the popular nursery rhyme ‘Ding Dong Bell’. Potter wrote out the rhyme beneath one of her other sketches; see museum no. BP.629(a). The rhyme goes: Tingle dingle dousy Ding dong bell! Laugh little mouse! Pussy’s in the well! Beatrix Potter had a keen interest in rhymes, which she adapted, wrote and illustrated. She worked on a book of rhymes in 1904-5, with the hopes that it would be published, so it is possible that her sketches for ‘Tingle dingle dousy’ date from around this time. Her publisher (Frederick Warne & Co.), however, was keen to keep up her successful stream of original tales, and after the death of Norman Warne, Beatrix’s editor and fiancé, in August 1905, the book was put to one side. Much later, in 1917, a developed version of the 1905 book of rhymes was published: Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes, followed by Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes in 1922. |
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| Other number | LB.1089 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
| Collection | |
| Library number | BP.629(d) |
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