Drawing
1890s (made)
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Studies of mice dancing for BP.445.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pencil on paper |
| Brief description | Sketches for a design for a greetings card, made by Beatrix Potter, mice dancing, for Hildesheimer and Faulkner, ca. 1890. Linder Bequest cat. no. LB 1773. |
| Physical description | Studies of mice dancing for BP.445. |
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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 | Studies for the design BP.445. 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.1773 - Linder Bequest catalogue no. |
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| Library number | BP.446 |
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| Record created | March 11, 2019 |
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