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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\r\nThis drawing was made to illustrate a rhyme in an intended 1905 book of nursery rhymes in the style of Randolph Caldecott’s picture books. The illustration was for the following rhyme:\r\n\r\nIf acorn-cups were tea-cups, what should we have to drink?\r\nWhy! honey-dew for sugar, in a cuckoo-pint of milk;\r\nWith pats of witches’ butter and a tansey cake, I think,\r\nLaid out upon a toad-stool on a cloth of cob-web silk!\r\n\r\nPotter did not in the end publish her rhymes until 1917, in Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes. \r\n\r\n","physicalDescription":"A finished drawing in pen and ink and watercolour showing six toads  on toadstool 'stools' grouped around a toadstool table eating cake and drinking from acorn cups in a woodland setting, while a seventh toad looks on. 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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 pen and ink drawing of a Toads' tea party, showing a group of toads eating cake and drinking out of acorn cups in a woodland setting; drawn for an intended book of nursery rhymes by Beatrix Potter in ca. 1905; Linder Bequest cat. no.  LB.710.\r","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.73; no.710","free":"Hobbs, Anne Stevenson, and Joyce Irene Whalley, eds. 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A similar image features alongside a verse titled ‘Acorn-cups’ in her 1905 manuscript for Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes. The verse mentions several mildly poisonous ingredients with folk associations to witchcraft, including witches’ butter, a colloquial name for a kind of fungus, and honey-dew, a sap often infected with ergot fungus.","date":{"text":"November 2019","earliest":"2019-11-01","latest":"2019-11-30"}}],"partNumbers":["BP.518"],"accessionNumberNum":"518","accessionNumberPrefix":"BP","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Linder Bequest catalogue no.","id":"THES57120"},"number":"LB.710"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-01-26","recordCreationDate":"2015-03-25","availableToBook":false}}