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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 purchased Hill Top in Near Sawrey, her first Lake District farm, in 1905. After this date she visited Hill Top regularly for holidays, eventually settling permanently in nearby Castle Cottage following her marriage in 1913. This study of ‘Kep’, one of Beatrix Potter’s sheepdogs, dates from a visit to Near Sawrey in March 1909, when Potter made a number of studies of the Lakeland landscape in snow. Potter gave this drawing to Stephanie Hyde Parker, the daughter of her cousin Ethel, who stuck it in an album: remnants of the album can be seen in the floral motif adhered to the lower left of the design, and in a drawing by Amy Hyde Parker attached to the back of the study.\r\n\r\nAnother version of this composition exists in the Linder Collection, which is also housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum.\r\n","physicalDescription":"A watercolour and pencil sketch of a sheep dog guarding sheep in a snow-covered field. In the lower left a purple flower motif is adhered to the paper - a legacy of when the drawing was kept in an album by Beatrix Potter's cousin, Stephanie Hyde Parker. A drawing attached to the verso, showing carrots and a turnip, is by Amy Hyde Parker.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Beatrix Potter","id":"A18000"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Hyde Parker, Amy","id":"AUTH372695"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":"image of turnips attached to verso"},{"name":{"text":"Hyde Parker, Amy","id":"AUTH372695"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":"image on verso of carrots and a turnip"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"pencil","id":"x30347"},{"text":"paper (fiber product)","id":"AAT14109"},{"text":"card","id":"x30344"},{"text":"watercolour (paint)","id":"AAT15045"}],"techniques":[{"text":"watercolour painting (technique)","id":"THES250889"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour and pencil on paper, mounted on card, collage","categories":[{"text":"Agriculture","id":"THES250518"},{"text":"Farming","id":"THES277573"},{"text":"Watercolours","id":"THES277714"},{"text":"Botanical art","id":"THES277744"},{"text":"Frames","id":"THES48949"},{"text":"Animals and Wildlife","id":"THES250852"},{"text":"Landscapes","id":"THES250800"},{"text":"Woman Artist","id":"THES387590"}],"styles":[{"text":"British","id":"AAT111159"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2020ML3865","2020MU2244","2017JW9484","2020ML3866"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLE","id":"THES49657"},"free":"","case":"SK Temp 5","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"watercolour (painting)","id":"AAT78925"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Near Sawrey","id":"x40059"},"association":{"text":"drawn","id":"x30545"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"5 March 1909","earliest":"1909-03-05","latest":"1909-03-05"},"association":{"text":"drawn","id":"x30545"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Linder Bequest [plus object number; written on labels on the same line as the object number]","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"175","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"sheet","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"250","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"sheet","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'\"Kep\" / March 5 1909 / Beatrix Potter.'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Inscribed by the artist, lower right: the inscription was inked over and enhanced by Stephanie Hyde-Parker, to whom the drawing was given. 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