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The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale.  \r\n\r\nThis undated landscape sketch utilises an autumn palette of reds and greenish-browns. The subject has not been identified but the Potter scholar Leslie Linder considered the Newlands Valley in the Lake District a possibility. The presence of what looks to be a lake in the centre right of the composition and the rolling hills might also point towards the area around Esthwaite Water, where Hill Top was situated. Beatrix Potter first visited the Lake District aged sixteen when the family stayed at Wray Castle and over the next twenty years they spent many of their summers in the area. Following Beatrix Potter’s purchase of Hill Top in Near Sawrey in 1905 she made studies of Near Sawrey in all seasons.\r\n","physicalDescription":"A watercolour over pencil study of a view seen from a hill over the fields and valley below. There is a building in the lower left and, in the centre right, the edge of a lake. 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