# - Potter, Beatrix.

152 by 152mm., fine ink and watercolour drawing, signed lower left corner "HBP.", mounted, minor browning and spotting not affecting image, slight creases and tears not affecting image

There is a slight crease running from the head to the foot of the leaf slightly affecting the image at certain angles. There is some minor browning and spotting not affecting the image. Some minor tears at the extremities of the leaf similarly do not affect the image. The image is less red than that printed in the published catalogue. The colours are bright and vivid.
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The final scene from "The Rabbits' Christmas Party" sequence.

This painting is widely known from another copy in the V&A Collection (V&A1006). It featured in the Linders' The Art of Beatrix Potter (London, 1972); Taylor, Whalley, Hobbs and Battrick, Beatrix Potter 1866-1943 - The Artist and Her World (London, 1987) and Hobbs, Beatrix Potter - Artist and Illustrator (London, 2005).

Hobbs, in the Dulwich Picture Gallery exhibition catalogue, noted "The attitudes are both rabbit-like and human. Only an artist with an intimate knowledge of anatomy could convey so well both musculature and the texture of fur. Remarkable, as in all Potter's animal drawing, is her observation of ears." See Hobbs, Beatrix Potter - Artist and Illustrator (London, 2005)