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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\nPotter produced many evocative watercolour studies of the Lake District landscape. She particularly delighted in recording the effect of crisp, white snow on the fells and fields as can be seen from the many watercolour drawings of such in the Linder Bequest. This study dates from her stay at Hill Top farmhouse during the early months of 1909. She had bought the property in 1905 but did not make Near Sawrey her permanent home until after she married in 1913.","physicalDescription":"Drawing in watercolour over pencil of a snow scene. Footprints lead away from the viewer towards a dry stone wall on the right, in the middle distance. Dry stone walls surround this field and another to the right. Village, trees and snow covered hills in the distance. 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Given by Leslie Linder (1904-1973) to the National Book League (now the Book Trust) in 1970 as part of a representative selection of Beatrix Potter’s work. This selection, comprising 279 drawings and 38 early editions and now known as the Linder Collection, was acquired on long-term loan by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1989 and remains the property of a charitable trust, The Linder Trust.  ","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Drawing depicting a snow scene with deep footprints winding across a field, watercolour over pencil, by Beatrix Potter, Near Sawrey, 1909, Linder Bequest cat. no. 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