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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":"Watercolour depiction of a brown rabbit lying on a blue-purple rug with its head towards the viewer and facing to the left of the picture. Hamper-style crate to the far left partially in view. The blue rug is on a red and yellow one on a stone floor. 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This selection, comprising 279 drawings and 38 early editions and now known as the Linder Collection, was formerly on long-term loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1989 and 2019 form the charitable trust, The Linder Trust. ","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Drawing of a rabbit, Peter Piper, lying on a rug in front of the fireside, watercolour, by Beatrix Potter, probably at Lingholm in August 1899, Linder Collection object no. 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