Newlands from Swindale

ca.1903 · Watercolour · 22.9 × 19.3 cm

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Over het werk

Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) is one of the world's best-loved children's authors and illustrators. She wrote the majority of the Original Peter Rabbit Books between 1901 and 1913. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale.

Verder lezen

Beatrix Potter set several of her tales in the Lake District. During long summer holidays she would escape the oppressive society of her parents and wander among the hills and valleys with her sketchbook, capturing the beauty of the surrounding landscapes. Her sketchbook of 1903 contains numerous watercolour impressions of Newlands Valley which lies west of Derwentwater and beyond the Cat Bells. It is possible that this larger and more finished sketch of a view of Newlands from Swindale also dates from 1903 when she was gathering ideas for her sixth tale, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-winkle (eventually published in 1905). Beatrix Potter based Mrs. Tiggy-winkle on her pet hedgehog, Mrs. Tiggy, and several of her sketches of Newlands Valley appear as backgrounds to her illustrations.

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Gegevens

Inventarisnummer: RENIER.436

Wat het toont

Landscapes (representations)Landscapes (environments)Natural landscapes Boom Farm buildings Farms Sheep farms Hills Mountains Views Newlands Valley

In de catalogus

Tekeningen & aquarellen Aquarel Impressionisme Modernisme 20e eeuw Swindale

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Intussen, in het leven van Beatrix Potter

Het hele leven

1900–1901
A dummy book of the rabbit tale, printed at her own expense
In 1900 Beatrix revised her tale of the four little rabbits and made a dummy book of it — it has been suggested, in imitation of Helen Bannerman’s 1899 bestseller; no one would buy it. So in December 1901 she had it printed at her own expense for family and friends — in black and white, with a coloured frontispiece.
2 October 1902
“The Tale of Peter Rabbit” is published
Several publishers had turned the manuscript down, Frederick Warne & Co among them, but the firm, eager to enter the booming market for small-format children’s books, reconsidered on the advice of the artist L. Leslie Brooke; it declined Rawnsley’s verse version in favour of Beatrix’s own prose, and she agreed to colour her illustrations, choosing the new Hentschel three-colour process. “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” appeared on 2 October 1902 and was an immediate success.
1903
A patented Peter Rabbit toy: the birth of character merchandising
In 1903 Beatrix made and patented a Peter Rabbit doll — he became the first fictional character made into a patented soft toy, and so the oldest licensed character. Painting books, board games, wallpaper, figurines, baby blankets and china tea-sets followed under licence from her publisher Warne, earning her an independent income, and Harrods catalogues list Peter merchandise from at least 1910.
1905
Engagement to Norman Warne, and his death
In 1905 Beatrix and her publisher Norman Warne became unofficially engaged; her parents objected because Warne was “in trade” and so socially unsuitable. The engagement lasted only a month: Warne died of a blood disease at the age of 37.
1905
Buys Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey
In 1905, with the proceeds of her books and a small legacy from an aunt, Beatrix bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey in the Lake District, six miles west of Lake Windermere. She and Warne may have hoped it would be their holiday home, but after his death she went ahead with the purchase, as she had always wanted to own that farm and live in “that charming village”.
1905–1913 · Opleiding
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