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- art
- Brief description:
- Plain Samian base sherd, from two angles and interior potter's stamp - watercolour - 260 x 195mm - January 1895 - Relics found 1872 when excavating National Safe Deposit Co. premises in Queen Victoria St., Mansion House, London.
- Collection:
- The Armitt
- Current location:
- ALMbox 162
- Object name:
- art
- Object number:
- AMATL : 1958.1134
- Object production date:
- 1.1895
- Object production person:
- Potter, Beatrix
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- Object name(s):
- art
- Brief description:
- Plain Samian dish sherd (Dragendorf 15/17R) from two angles - watercolour - 196 x 280mm - February 1895 - Relics found 1872 when excavating National Safe Deposit Co. premises in Queen Victoria St., Mansion House, London.
- Collection:
- The Armitt
- Current location:
- ALMbox 162
- Object name:
- art
- Object number:
- AMATL : 1958.1142
- Object production date:
- 2.1895
- Object production person:
- Potter, Beatrix
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- Object name(s):
- art
- Brief description:
- Agaric us velutipes. - pencil, pen and ink - 310 x 255mm - specimen collected at Dunkeld , Strath Braan - December 1896 - There is a similar painting of Flammulina velutipes, presumably sent to Charlie McIntosh, in the Perth Museum. It is dated c 1893-1897
- Collection:
- The Armitt
- Current location:
- ALMbox 128
- Object name:
- art
- Object number:
- AMATL : 1958.4709
- Object production date:
- 12.1896
- Object production person:
- Potter, Beatrix
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/6bb913e4-7e7e-3bc7-b0c3-b5453d7cd51d
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- Object name(s):
- art
- Brief description:
- Clitocybe nebularis, or Clouded Agaric , with substrate, oak and beech leaves, back pen drawing of LS - pencil and watercolour - 280 x 215mm - specimen collected at Dunkeld, Strath Braan, Perthshire, Scotland - 4 November 1893
- Collection:
- The Armitt
- Current location:
- BP: Under the Microscope
- Object name:
- art
- Object number:
- AMATL : 1958.174
- Object production date:
- 4.11.1893
- Object production person:
- Potter, Beatrix
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/54f0f816-5b08-35c3-b9c6-499355328418
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- Object name(s):
- art
- Brief description:
- Ten metal objects, knife blades, bent hatchet blade, hooks and chain, one wooden object, possibly a flute or a recorder type instrument and two teeth. - watercolour - 259 x 121mm - From the Bucklersbury excavations, London - December 1894
- Collection:
- The Armitt
- Current location:
- ALMbox 164
- Object name:
- art
- Object number:
- AMATL : 1958.1154
- Object production date:
- 12.1894
- Object production person:
- Potter, Beatrix
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/799fd94c-45f7-3e80-932a-58c83c4d2d86
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- Object name(s):
- art
- Brief description:
- Plain Samian dish sherd (Dragendorf 27) from two angles with a reconstruction outline - 259 x 197mm - January 1895 - Relics found 1872 when excavating National Safe Deposit Co. premises in Queen Victoria St., Mansion House, London.
- Collection:
- The Armitt
- Current location:
- BP: Under the Microscope
- Object name:
- art
- Object number:
- AMATL : 1958.1140
- Object production date:
- 1.1895
- Object production person:
- Potter, Beatrix
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/4873546e-631a-3c35-bf26-380aed33c199
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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- Object name(s):
- art
- Brief description:
- Agaric us campestris var. hortensis, or Agaric us bisporus, or Fog mushroom. - pencil and watercolour - 240 x 304mm - specimen collected at Cat Bells, Keswick, Cumbria, 15 Sept 1897 - drawing produced 15 to 19 September 1897
- Collection:
- The Armitt
- Current location:
- ALMbox 292
- Object name:
- art
- Object number:
- AMATL : 1958.5042
- Object production date:
- 15.9.1897
- Object production person:
- Potter, Beatrix
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/d0c0f6e3-f7ff-3736-ba4d-55ace215a596
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- Object name(s):
- art
- Brief description:
- Three fungi, Flammulina velutipes or velvet shank, top right, Crepidotus, top left, and Plicaturiopsis crispa bottom - watercolour - specimens collected at Strathbraan, Dunkeld - 25 February 1898 - There is a similar painting of Flammulina velutipes, dated about 1893-1897, presumably sent to Charlie McIntosh, in the Perth Museum.
- Collection:
- The Armitt
- Current location:
- ALMbox 290
- Object name:
- art
- Object number:
- AMATL : 1958.689
- Object production date:
- 25.2.1898
- Object production person:
- Potter, Beatrix
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/46aa394f-b383-320e-ac3b-f6ae06b7114c
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- Object name(s):
- art
- Brief description:
- Hygrocybe coccinea, formally Hygrocebe cocinea, or Scarlet Hood, or Scarlet Wax Cap, with a group of fungi in habitat, long sections and spores at x600 magnification - pencil and watercolour - 217 x 281mm - specimen collected at Lingholme, Keswick, Allerdale, Cumbria - 8 October 1897
- Collection:
- The Armitt
- Current location:
- ALMbox 295
- Object name:
- art
- Object number:
- AMATL : 1958.370
- Object production date:
- 8.10.1897
- Object production person:
- Potter, Beatrix
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/24dd5c78-b29b-3e57-b9f9-a091a7448109
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- Object name(s):
- art
- Brief description:
- Twenty one objects, [metal/bone] styli [17], 2 nails, 1 piece of twisted metal; 1 part of a [key] - watercolour - [1895] - Relics found 1872 when excavating National Safe Deposit Co. premises in Queen Victoria St., Mansion House, London.
- Collection:
- The Armitt
- Current location:
- BP: Under the Microscope
- Object name:
- art
- Object number:
- AMATL : 1958.1156
- Object production date:
- [1895]
- Object production person:
- Potter, Beatrix
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/f558b69b-6d4b-380a-9371-5eb82becfe1f
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- Object name(s):
- art
- Brief description:
- Dascycypha calycina var Trevelyani or Lachnellula willkommii, larch canker fungus (see ALMC1958.553) and L. occidentalis [See A Victorian Naturalist p.115] - showing development from 26 August 1896 to 23 September 1896 - pencil, pen, and ink - 219 x 273mm. - specimen collection site not known
- Collection:
- The Armitt
- Current location:
- ALMbox 110
- Object name:
- art
- Object number:
- AMATL : 1958.554
- Object production date:
- 26.9.1896
- Object production person:
- Potter, Beatrix
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/674456eb-cd3f-3790-b834-e0d0c47928e0
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- Object name(s):
- art
- Brief description:
- Collybia velutipes or Velvet Shank. - pencil, pen and ink - 262 x 280mm - specimen found in Putney Park, London - 10 to 15 December 1896 - There is a similar painting of Flammulina velutipes , presumably sent to Charlie McIntosh, in the Perth Museum. It is dated c 1893-1897.
- Collection:
- The Armitt
- Current location:
- ALMbox 128
- Object name:
- art
- Object number:
- AMATL : 1958.4707
- Object production date:
- 10.12.1896
- Object production person:
- Potter, Beatrix
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/3c417b2d-98c0-31f5-b3f5-ee2148389524
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- Object name(s):
- art
- Brief description:
- Dasyscypha Calycina var Trevelyani, the development of Larch Canker, swollen twig with Lachnellula willkommiiand above Lachnellula occidentalis with Nectria in bottom left, formally described by Potter as Dascycypha with Loccidentalis calycina var Trevelyani - pencil and watercolour - 218 x 273mm - specimen found at Estwaite, Cumbria - 23 July 1896
- Collection:
- The Armitt
- Current location:
- ALMbox 96
- Object name:
- art
- Object number:
- AMATL : 1958.372
- Object production date:
- 23.7.1896
- Object production person:
- Potter, Beatrix
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/13d33919-b8dd-3fd1-9cba-f701971967d4
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- Object name(s):
- art
- Brief description:
- Twenty objects including 6 needles, 4 toilet utensils/spoons, one bent needle, one [stud], part of a [comb], 3 [silver] rings, 1 [silver] chain, 2 outline drawings, 1 bent piece of metal - watercolour and pencil - 263 x 205mm - undated [1870-1895] - Relics found 1872 when excavating National Safe Deposit Co. premises in Queen Victoria St., Mansion House, London.
- Collection:
- The Armitt
- Current location:
- ALMBox 164
- Object name:
- art
- Object number:
- AMATL : 1958.1152
- Object production person:
- Potter, Beatrix
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/3eda38a8-75ad-3eef-a740-73bcbfd33c1c
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- Object name(s):
- art
- Brief description:
- Eight objects, 3 pieces of [lead], one with hole bored; 1 bent nail, 1 twisted piece of metal, 3 long pieces of metal - one 'L' shaped, one 'T' shaped and one with curled ends - watercolour - December 1894 - Relics found 1872 when excavating National Safe Deposit Co. premises in Queen Victoria St., Mansion House, London.
- Collection:
- The Armitt
- Current location:
- ALMbox 164
- Object name:
- art
- Object number:
- AMATL : 1958.1155
- Object production date:
- 12.1894
- Object production person:
- Potter, Beatrix
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/a25427a4-80f9-3219-984a-9cbad8db0e2a
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- Title:
- The Poet
- Object name(s):
- Bookplate
- Brief description:
- Etching
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Designs
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- in
- Dimension value:
- 3.125
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- in
- Dimension value:
- 3.875
- Material:
- printing ink
- Object name:
- Bookplate
- Object number:
- E.2113-1924
- Object production date:
- c.1920
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1915-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1924-12-31
- Object production person:
- Heintzelman, Arthur William
- Person's association:
- artist
- Object production place:
- United States
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- Etching
- Responsible department/section:
- PDP
- Technique:
- etching
- Technique:
- etching
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1924, published under the Authority of the Board of Education, London, 1926.
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/1b5d8d44-6248-34e8-8b4a-938a4385fc4d, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Bi-centenary jewel for St. Martin's Lodge, No. 98, presented to W. Bro. D. W. Armitt, 1805-2005.
- Object name(s):
- Jewels; Jewel, Bi-centenary
- Brief description:
- Top bar: Gold coloured metal bar. Ribbon: Ribbed and watered fabric in light blue. First Ribbon device: Matt gold coloured metal bar in the form of a horizontal column, with text in relief reading '1805 / 2005'. At the centre is text reading “CC” infilled with dark blue enamel. Second Ribbon device: Gold coloured metal bar infilled with light blue enamel with text reading 'No. 98'. The bar has gold coloured metal foliage motif above and below. Bottom bar: Gold coloured metal bar in the form of a curl motif. Hanging device: Gold coloured metal letter 'C' (the Roman numeral for one hundred) entwined in a gold coloured metal rope knot with four loops and no end, all within a circle formed by a snake biting its own tail (worm oroborus), also in gold coloured metal. This design is set within a gold coloured metal circular device infilled with light blue enamel with text 'St. MARTIN'S LODGE / 1805'. Pin: Vertical
- Collection:
- Museum of Freemasonry
- Acquisition method:
- Donation
- Associated concept:
- Jewels--Freemasonry--England--1800-1849
- Associated concept:
- St. Martin's Lodge, No. 98, Stoke-on-Trent--Jewels
- Associated concept:
- Jewels--Freemasonry--England--2000-2009--Anniversaries
- Comments:
- Bi-centenary jewels are awarded to lodges that can demonstrate two hundred years of continuous working.
- Comments:
- The charter originally awarded to St. Martins Lodge in 1805 came from the the formation of an earlier lodge in 1764, Centenary jewels of this lodge bear this date.
- Comments:
- As most jewels are manufactured in the same year as they are presented, date of manufacture for this jewel is taken to be the same as the centenary year of the Lodge. Please note this manufacture date is speculative as occasionally jewels are manufactured before or even after the date of presentation.
- Content - description:
- Designs > Animals > Mythical creatures > Worm oroborus, Designs > Symbols > Worm oroborus, Designs > Patterns > Foliage, Designs > Plants, Designs > Symbols > Knots, Designs > Knots, Designs > Roman numerals > C (100)
- Dimension:
- H: 94 W: 36 D: 6 Dia: n/a Wt: n/a
- Entry date:
- 10/06/2005
- Object name:
- Jewels; Jewel, Bi-centenary
- Object number:
- M2005/99
- Object production date:
- 2005 (circa)
- Object production place:
- England
- Reproduction format:
- Digital image
- Technique:
- Cast metal
- Technique:
- Enamelled
- Technique:
- Woven
- Technique:
- Watered
- Technique:
- Plated
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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- Title:
- Pholiota spumosa
- Object name(s):
- painting, watercolour
- Brief description:
- This sheet is dated 1895 but it is identical to one in the Armitt Library painted whilst the Potters were at Eastwood in September 1893. The species is inedible and generally of a yellowish colour with green tinges. It grows in clusters, normally on tree stumps or at the base of living trees.
- Collection:
- Culture Perth & Kinross
- Acquisition method:
- bequest
- Associated concept:
- Fine Art and Art Archives
- Content - other type:
- plants, fungi
- Content - place:
- England
- Content - place:
- Cumbria
- Content - place:
- Windermere?
- Dimension:
- height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- mm
- Dimension value:
- 161
- Dimension value:
- ??
- Dimension value:
- 240
- Dimension:
- width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- mm
- Dimension value:
- 161
- Dimension value:
- ??
- Dimension value:
- 240
- Inscription content:
: dated by the artist? : verso? : :
- Object history note:
- botanical identification was made by Carleton Rae, an amateur mycologist and friend of Charlie McIntosh , who had sent Potter's drawings to Rae for species identification. See Wayside Woods and Fungi by WPK Findlay for further info on Rae
- Object name:
- painting, watercolour
- Object number:
- FA107/79.16
- Object production date:
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1895-08-18
- Date - latest:
- 1895-08-18
- Object production person:
- Potter, Helen Beatrix
- Person's association:
- artist
- Physical description:
- This sheet is dated 1895 but it is identical to one in the Armitt Library painted whilst the Potters were at Eastwood in September 1893. The species is inedible and generally of a yellowish colour with green tinges. It grows in clusters, normally on tree stumps or at the base of living trees.
- Physical description:
- This sheet shows a more academic approach to her subject than some other paintings where she has been more concerned with creating an aesthetically pleasing image. Here she shows clusters at different stages of maturity as well as cross sections through individual specimens, to show how the gills are attached.
- Physical description:
- Image shows four groups of fungi. At upper left is a group of three fungi with broad cream-coloured caps, stems of a similar colour and gills of a darker brown. The stems are roughly vertical but are not straight. To right of this group is a larger cluster of fungi of similar colour but with straighter stems, narrower caps and gills of a lighter shade. In bottom left are two fungi seen from above, with roughly circular caps of light brown which are split at the edges. In bottom right are three cross-sections of fungi; one is small with a convex cap; one larger, the underside of its cap angled upwards; and one larger still, the edges of the cap now turned down. Blank background.
- Reproduction number:
- FA107-79-16.jpg
- Responsible department/section:
- fine art
- Responsible department/section:
- PERGM
- Technique:
- watercolour on paper
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/a642597f-9004-3214-bde5-4c466fc2a237
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/a642597f-9004-3214-bde5-4c466fc2a237, Culture Perth & Kinross, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- General Adrian Lyons interviewed by Richard Malins
- Object name(s):
- oral history interview; oral history interview
- Brief description:
- Oral history interview with General Adrian Lyons, conducted and recorded by Richard Malins at the interviewee's home in West Berkshire on 21 March 2019. Duration: 1 hr. 50 min. 30 sec. Army involvement with railways at Longmoor and in Germany; privatisation impact; retirement from Army; joining Railway Forum; Hatfield accident; Great Heck accident interviews; Railway Forum formation; stakeholder involvement; Railtrack collapse; Strategic Rail Authority (SRA); Richard Bowker and Tom Winsor relationship; Railway Forum improving industry image; passenger growth; Rail Review 2005; SRA and Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) relationship; abolition of SRA; Network Rail; John Armitt; Iain Coucher; leaving Railway Forum 2006; effects of privatisation; Railway Conversion League; press tactics; Department for Transport (DfT) taking control; retirement; military railways in Germany; military railways; Royal Engineers (RE); cultural similarities between military and railways; technology change; Train Protection & Warning System (TPWS); integration of external technology; Crossrail; management culture change; South West Trains (SWT); Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB); standards to combine theoretical and practical; reflections on accidents; Network Rail
- Collection:
- Science Museum Group
- Associated person:
- Adrian Lyons
- Person's association:
- interviewee
- Credit line:
- Britain’s Railways All Change (BRAC) oral history archive, created in partnership with the Friends of the National Railway Museum, the Retired Railway Officers’ Society and the National Railway Museum.
- Object name:
- oral history interview; oral history interview
- Object production date:
- Date - earliest / single:
- 2019
- Date - latest:
- 2019
- Object production date:
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 2019
- Date - latest:
- 2019
- Object production person:
- Malins, Richard W.
- Object production place:
- West Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
- Other number:
- 2021-53
- Other number type:
- accession number
- Other number:
- E2020.0210.1
- Other number type:
- previous number
- Responsible department/section:
- NRM - Oral Histories
- Right holder:
- Science Museum Group
- Right type:
- Copyright
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/a23ffc17-2395-3150-8724-c7b9afdfc96d
Use licence for this record: CC BY
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- Title:
- Study of mushrooms
- Object name(s):
- Watercolour
- Brief description:
- A drawing in landscape format with three finished studies of brownish mushrooms and two smaller, less finished studies. In watercolour over pencil with white highlights in gouache.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Watercolours
- Associated concept:
- Science
- Associated concept:
- Woman Artist
- Content - concept:
- fungi
- Content - concept:
- natural history
- Content - concept:
- mushroom
- Content - description:
- mycology
- Credit line:
- Linder Bequest [plus object number; written on labels on the same line as the object number]
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- sheet
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 19.5
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- sheet
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 26
- Inscription content:
- 'Amanita Asper'
- Inscription interpretation:
- inscribed on mount (now detached) by another hand
- Material:
- pencil
- Material:
- paper (fiber product)
- Material:
- watercolour (paint)
- Object history note:
- Drawn by Beatrix Potter, probably in the period 1887-1901. 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.
- Object name:
- Watercolour
- Object number:
- BP.355
- Object production date:
- ca.1887-1901
- Date - association:
- drawn
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1882-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1901-12-31
- Object production person:
- Beatrix Potter
- Person's association:
- artist
- Object status:
- Unique
- Other number:
- LB.289
- Other number type:
- Linder Bequest catalogue no.
- Physical description:
- A drawing in landscape format with three finished studies of brownish mushrooms and two smaller, less finished studies. In watercolour over pencil with white highlights in gouache.
- Reproduction number:
- 2020ML3515
- Responsible department/section:
- NAL
- Technique:
- watercolour painting (technique)
- Technique:
- watercolour and gouache over pencil on paper
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- Collections online record
- Text:
- 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.
Beatrix Potter was deeply interested in natural history and as a young woman became especially concerned with mycology (the study of fungi). She made hundreds of mycological drawings, many of which she bequeathed to the Armitt Museum and Library in Ambleside, the Lake District, after her death. This undated example of a fungi study from the Linder Bequest in the Victoria and Albert Museum probably dates from the period 1887-1901, when she is known to have been producing mycological drawings. In this drawing Beatrix Potter has used an opaque white for the highlights and speckles seen on the mushrooms shown here, identified as Amanita asper, otherwise rendered in watercolour.
Beatrix Potter not only made careful drawings of fungi, but actively studied it. Her scientific paper, On the Germination of the spores of the Agaricineae was read at the Linnean Society in London, but was never published.
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- Summary description
- User's reference:
- 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.
- User's reference:
- 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.32; no.289
- Reference details:
- p.32; no.289
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