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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 highly detailed watercolour of two red squirrels on a log was probably intended as a design for a greetings card. A number of other versions of this composition exist in varying degrees of finish; a group of three drawings sold at Sotheby’s in 2008 (lot 302) and there are various versions in the Warne Archive, including a back view of the squirrels. Potter may have intended the design as a greetings card for Hildesheimer & Faulkner in the 1890s. In 1928 Frederick Warne & Co. considered using them as covers for a calendar. \r\n\r\nPotter’s best known depiction of red squirrels was within her ‘little book’, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (Frederick Warne 1903).\r\n","physicalDescription":"A highly finished watercolour study, with traces of pencil drawing beneath, showing two red squirrels on a log, one eating a nut. 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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 over pencil drawing of two squirrels on a log, probably intended as a design for a greetings card, drawn ca.1894; Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.396.","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.396","free":"Hobbs, Anne Stevenson, and Joyce Irene Whalley, eds. 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