Ink, watercolour and gouache on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Illustrations for ‘The Tailor of Gloucester’
Collection
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Where is My Twist
Presented by Capt. K.W.G. Duke RN 1946
animals: mammals
body
bowl
cat
ceramics
clock
cup / mug
domestic
fine arts and music
fireplace
hand
heating and lighting
interiors
jug
kettle
kitchen
kitchen
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
objects
people
Potter, Beatrix, ‘The Tailor of Gloucester’
scientific and measuring
tea pot
vessels and containers
paper unique ink watercolour gouache
‘Where is My Twist?’
support: 111 × 92 mm
Presented by Capt. K.W.G. Duke RN 1946
<p><b>A01099</b> [from] TWENTY TWO ILLUSTRATIONS FOR ‘THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER’ <i>c.</i> 1902 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/potter-frontispiece-the-tailor-mouse-a01089" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>A01089</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/potter-the-mice-stitching-button-holes-a01110" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>A01110</span></a>; complete]</p>
<p>Pen and watercolour, each 4 3/8×3 5/8 (11×9); Nos.16 and 17 are horizontal.
<br/>Presented by the artist's executor, Captain K.W.G. Duke, R.N., 1946.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Margaret Lane, <i>The Tale of Beatrix Potter</i>, 1946, pp.63–4.</p>
<p>The illustrations for <i>The Tailor of Gloucester</i>, her second and favourite book, were drawn in Gloucester and the country round about, the story being based on an actual Gloucestershire story that she heard while staying with a cousin near Stroud. The fabrics in the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolours</span></a> are said to have been taken from fabrics in the V. &amp; A.</p>
<p>The book was first privately printed, in a limited edition of 400 copies, in 1902; Frederick Warne &amp; Co. published their first edition in 1903. D. Billington, Managing Director of Frederick Warne &amp; Co., stated: ‘Regarding the 22 original illustrations held in your Gallery, these are the same <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> from which we originally made the blocks in our 1903 first edition. Only two of these were used in the 1902 edition and these appear on pages 40 and 43 of the present (1958) edition’ (letter of 28 January 1959). In addition the ninth illustration was used only in the 1902 edition. There are seven further plates in the Warne edition, the drawings for which are not at the Tate Gallery.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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2004-09-22T00:00:00
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animals: mammals body bowl cat ceramics clock cup / mug domestic fine arts and music fireplace hand heating and lighting interiors jug kettle kitchen kitchen literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) objects people Potter, Beatrix, ‘The Tailor of Gloucester’ scientific and measuring tea pot vessels and containers