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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.  \n\nBeatrix loved to paint and draw the Great British countryside. She particularly delighted in recording details of the changes that the different seasons brought upon the land. Here a harvest scene is depicted in Potter's own distinctive style, comprising anthropomorphised animals working on the land.","physicalDescription":"Drawing in watercolour over pencil of procession of mice carrying ears of corn towards the viewer and into their hole underground. Stooked wheat and purple, green and pink mountains and trees in the background. 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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.   ","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Drawing of procession of mice carrying ears of corn, watercolour over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Great Britain, 1899, Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.998","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Hobbs, Anne Stevenson, and Joyce Irene Whalley, eds. <u>Beatrix Potter: the V & A collection : the Leslie Linder bequest of Beatrix Potter material : watercolours, drawings, manuscripts, books, photographs and memorabilia.</u> London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985.","id":"AUTH315806"},"details":"p.110, cat. no. 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Below, heads of wheat appear to spill out from the image of the harvest scene they frame, as though through a window.","date":{"text":"March 2019","earliest":"2019-03-01","latest":"2019-03-31"}}],"partNumbers":["BP.1144"],"accessionNumberNum":"1144","accessionNumberPrefix":"BP","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Linder Bequest catalogue no.","id":"THES57120"},"number":"LB.998"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","verso"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-06-24","recordCreationDate":"2013-10-17","availableToBook":true}}