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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\nBeatrix Potter made a number of watercolours of south Devon characterised by a bright palette and broad brushstrokes. This sheet shows Sidmouth Beach. Potter is known to have visited Sidmouth on a number of occasions, including in March 1899, April 1901 – when she made this watercolour-, April 1902, September 1904 (possibly), and Easter 1910. This sheet is somewhat unusual within Potter’s landscape studies for its depiction of the people present on the beach – here as much a part of the scene as the surrounding landscape. \r\n\r\nThe West Country also inspired some of Potter’s writing: she conceived The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (published 1930) whilst staying in south Devon in 1883. The story’s setting is the ‘pretty little town’ of ‘Stymouth’ – a fictional blend of Sidmouth and Teignmouth in south Devon with Lyme Regis in Dorset.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Watercolour landscape with a sandy beach and figures in the foreground, sea in the midground and cliffs to the right and also beyond the water, where the bay curves round. 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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 view of Sidmouth Beach with figures and cliffs; by Beatrix Potter in Sidmouth, 15 April 1902; Linder Bequest cat. no. LB.601.","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.64; no.601","free":"Hobbs, Anne Stevenson, and Joyce Irene Whalley, eds. 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