Cecily Parsley
Watercolour
ca. 1896 (drawn)
ca. 1896 (drawn)
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Folded sheet showing a sketch of Cecily Parsley running with a wheelbarrow into a burrow, together with two small sketches for a pair of facing pages, one of three rabbits at the little door of Cecily Parsley's premises, looking at the 'To Let' notice, and the other of 'The Pen Inn C. Parsley' sign hanging from elder blossom. The verse is pencilled in.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Cecily Parsley (series title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil and watercolour on paper |
| Brief description | Cecily Parsley page opening design. Beatrix Potter. Great Britain, ca. 1896. Linder Bequest cat. no. 745-746. |
| Physical description | Folded sheet showing a sketch of Cecily Parsley running with a wheelbarrow into a burrow, together with two small sketches for a pair of facing pages, one of three rabbits at the little door of Cecily Parsley's premises, looking at the 'To Let' notice, and the other of 'The Pen Inn C. Parsley' sign hanging from elder blossom. The verse is pencilled in. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | Verse Till Cecily Parsley ran away! (in pencil) |
| Gallery label | This double-page design for an illustrated nursery rhyme is conceived as a balanced trio of vignettes. On the left Potter suggests the frontage of an inn solely by its two most important features: the sign and the door. Much later she used the right-hand image for the cover of her book Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes (1922).(March 2019) |
| 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. |
| Subject depicted | |
| Literary reference | Cecily Parsley |
| 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.78; no.745-746
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.78; no.745-746 |
| Other number | LB.745-746 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
| Collection | |
| Library number | BP.660 |
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| Record created | September 25, 2018 |
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