Design
1890s (made)
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Dancing mice.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pencil and pen and ink on paper |
| Brief description | Design for a greetings card, made by Beatrix Potter, dancing mice, for Hildesheimer and Faulkner, ca. 1890. Linder Bequest cat. no. LB 1772. |
| Physical description | Dancing mice. |
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| Production type | Unique |
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| Credit line | Linder Bequest [plus object number; written on labels on the same line as the object number] |
| Object history | Drawn by Beatrix Potter. 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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| 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.
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. |
| Other number | LB.1772 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
| Collection | |
| Library number | BP.445 |
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| Record created | March 5, 2019 |
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