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Her keen eye for observation also informed the animals and plants seen in her book illustration. The detailed watercolour studies of sprays of a sweet bay tree on this sheet have been annotated by Potter, who drew arrows to illustrate the areas in light and shadow, and also noted ‘There has been no sunshine & evergreen leaves show very little transparent light without it’. \r\n\r\nBeatrix Potter 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.  The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale.  \r\n","physicalDescription":"A landscape format sheet with two watercolour over pencil studies of sprays of a sweet bay tree. The artist has made a number of notes around the sketches in pencil. 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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":"Watercolour and pencil drawing of sprays of a sweet bay tree, drawn by Beatrix Potter in 1900, Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.403.","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.43; no.403","free":"Hobbs, Anne Stevenson, and Joyce Irene Whalley, eds. 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