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The sketch is very similar to the final illustration on p. 52 of <i>The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher</i>, but in this initial sketch the scene is shown from a more distant perspective.\n\nBeatrix 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. <i>The Tale of Peter Rabbit</i> (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale.  ","physicalDescription":"A faintly drawn oval shape encases a pencil design with some elements of pen-and-ink and watercolour. A frog stands at the corner of a house which borders water with his arms open to greet two creatures approaching up a slight incline. The first is a newt with a walking stick and the second, more hazily sketched, is a tortoise. 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Acquired by the V&amp;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.   ","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Pen and ink and pencil drawing by Beatrix Potter of Mr. Jeremy Fisher welcoming his two friends Sir Isaac Newton (a newt) and Alderman Ptolemy (a tortoise) to his house; study for an illustration to <i>The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher</i> (1906); Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.849. 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