Ink, watercolour and gouache on paper
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Illustrations for ‘The Tailor of Gloucester’
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Finished Coat
Presented by Capt. K.W.G. Duke RN 1946
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Potter, Beatrix, ‘The Tailor of Gloucester’
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paper unique ink watercolour gouache
12 February 2022 – 30 June 2024
2024-06-30
12 February 2022 – 8 January 2023
2023-01-08
2022-02-12
Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK)
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2022-02-12
Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature
Loan-out
The Finished Coat
support: 111 × 92 mm
Presented by Capt. K.W.G. Duke RN 1946
<p><b>A01108</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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adults animals: mammals architecture cat clothing and personal items coat features industrial and crafts interiors literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) man objects people Potter, Beatrix, ‘The Tailor of Gloucester’ snow street tailor townscapes / man-made features weather window work and occupations workshop workspaces