Dinner in Mouseland
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 – Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1890 - 1895
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pencil, Watercolour
Measurements
147 x 218 mm
Order this imageCollection
Beatrix Potter Gallery, Cumbria (Accredited Museum)
On show at
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, External Locations
NT 242737
Caption
Beatrix Potter made this highly finished grisaille drawing – executed in pencil, ink and watercolour – sometime between 1890 and 1895. This fantasy scene of clothed, bipedal mice (including a gentleman mouse in top hat and tails) anticipates a scene from 'The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse' (1918).
Summary
Drawing in pencil, ink and watercolour using the grisaille technique (see Hobbs, Beatrix Potter's Art page 16 and plates 48-49). An interior scene with two mice seated at a table covered with a tablecloth. A gentleman mouse enters the room in the right background; a daisy in a terracotta flowerpot fills the left foreground. Signed 'H.B.P.' in the bottom right corner.
Marks and inscriptions
H.B.P. (Beatrix Potter's hand, bottom right corner)
Makers and roles
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 – Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943), artist of original
Exhibition history
The Peter Rabbit Exhibition, Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Beatrix Potter's Birth , Yokohama SOGO Museum, Yokohama, 2016 - 2017 The Peter Rabbit Exhibition, Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Beatrix Potter's Birth , Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya, 2016 - 2017 The Peter Rabbit Exhibition, Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Beatrix Potter's Birth , Bunkamura Museum, Tokyo, 2016 - 2017