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The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale.  \r\n\r\nThis drawing of a frog fishing in a boat is part of Beatrix Potter’s series of drawings for A Frog He Would A-Fishing Go. These illustrations were inspired by the gentleman frog in Randolph Caldecott’s picture book, A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go, printed by Edmund Evans for George Routledge in 1883 and later for Frederick Warne in 1895. In February 1884, Rupert Potter, Beatrix’s father, purchased two pen and ink drawings by Caldecott made in preparation for his book. Beatrix Potter intended her drawings for A Frog He Would A-Fishing Go to be published as a booklet, however, having approached the firm of Ernest Nister was told ‘I am a little doubtful of whether we can take it, we certainly cannot make a booklet of it as people do not want frogs now. The only way in which we could use it would be as a double page in our ‘Annual’…’ Following some negotiation, most of the drawings were purchased by Ernest Nister for publication; this illustration was among those published in Nister’s Holiday Annual for 1896 and in Comical Customers at the New Stores of Comical Rhymes and Stories.\r\n\r\nThe story eventually developed into The Tale of Jeremy Fisher, which was published by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1906.\r\n","physicalDescription":"A pen and ink drawing, in horizontal format, showing a frog in a rowing boat, with reeds behind the boat. 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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 drawing of a frog fishing in a boat, an illustration for 'A Frog he would a-fishing go' drawn by Beatrix Potter in 1894; Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.1033.\r\n\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.118; no.1033","free":"Hobbs, Anne Stevenson, and Joyce Irene Whalley, eds. 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