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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\nIn the 1890s Potter sketched illustrations for fairy tales including Cinderella, Puss-in-Boots, Red Riding Hood and Sleeping Beauty. Her later idea to publish her ‘more or less written’ version of Cinderella within ‘a set of fairy tales in thin volumes’ (see Judy Taylor (ed.) Beatrix Potter’s Letters, Frederick Warne, 1989, p.346) never materialised, but some of her manuscripts and sketches can be viewed in the V&amp;A collections. There are two other drawings relating to Cinderella in the Linder Bequest; both depict the subject of Cinderella’s coach and one presents a more finished version of the subject. In Potter’s interpretation, Cinderella’s pumpkin carriage is drawn by three pairs of rabbits, while the coachmen are mice. There is a very light pencil sketch of a frog holding an umbrella, leaping into a boat, on the verso. This may relate to Potter's series of drawings 'A Frog He Would a-Fishing Go' of around 1894.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Preliminary study completed in pencil with pen and ink work showing Cinderella's pumpkin carriage drawn by three pairs of rabbits. One of the rabbits is licking its paws while another is attended to by a mouse coachman. 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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":"Pen and ink and pencil sketch of Cinderella's coach drawn by three pairs of rabbits (recto) and a very light pencil sketch of a frog (verso) drawn by Beatrix Potter, probably in the 1890s; Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.975. ","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.107; no.975","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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