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The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale.  \r\n\r\nThis work dates from 1893, when Potter is known to have borrowed guinea pigs from her friend and neighbour Miss Paget to make drawings: she wrote in her journal on 5 February 1893 that one of the guinea pigs ‘took to eating blotting paper, pasteboard, string and other curious substances, and expired in the night’. This composition was later redrawn for Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes (published 1922) to accompany Potter’s verses:\r\n\r\nWe have a little garden,\r\nA garden of our own,\r\nAnd every day we water there\r\nThe seeds that we have sown.\r\n\r\nWe love our little garden,\r\nAnd tend it with such care,\r\nYou will not find a faded leaf\r\nOr blighted blossom there. \r\n\r\n","physicalDescription":"An illustration of guinea pigs gardening; four guinea pigs work the soil with spades and a rake while a guinea pig with glasses and a blue coat 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":"Drawing of guinea pigs gardening in pen and ink and watercolour over pencil, drawn by Beatrix Potter in 1893 and later redrawn for the 1922 Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes; Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.741.","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.78; no.741","free":"Hobbs, Anne Stevenson, and Joyce Irene Whalley, eds. Beatrix Potter: the V & A collection: the Leslie Linder bequest of Beatrix Potter material: watercolours, drawings, manuscripts, books, photographs and memorabilia. 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