Ink, watercolour and gouache on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Illustrations for ‘The Tailor of Gloucester’
Collection
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Simpkin in Snowy Street
Presented by Capt. K.W.G. Duke RN 1946
animals: mammals
architecture
cat
England
England, South West
England, Southern
Gloucester - non-specific
Gloucestershire
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
places
Potter, Beatrix, ‘The Tailor of Gloucester’
seasons
snow
street
streetlight
townscapes / man-made features
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
weather
winter
paper unique ink watercolour gouache
Simpkin in the Snowy Street
support: 111 × 92 mm
Presented by Capt. K.W.G. Duke RN 1946
<p><b>A01102</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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Catalogue entry
2004-09-22T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
animals: mammals architecture cat England England, Southern England, South West Gloucester - non-specific Gloucestershire literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) places Potter, Beatrix, ‘The Tailor of Gloucester’ seasons snow street streetlight townscapes / man-made features UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions weather winter