Potter family 'Favourites' album
Helen Leech (1839 - 1932)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1873 - 1878
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pencil, Watercolour
Measurements
240 x 330 mm
Collection
Beatrix Potter Gallery, Cumbria
NT 242512
Summary
Album with pre-printed pages giving space for drawings of favourite 'proverb or motto, favourite occupation, favourite quality, special aversion, favourite place, favourite character, favourite animal, favourite dish'. Each person has their own page, and a drawing is made for each category. Five pages have been filled or partially filled in - Ada B Smallfield 24 April 1878; Helen Potter 22 March 1873; JW Larnach June 1873.
Makers and roles
Helen Leech (1839 - 1932), painter
References
Annemarie 2021: Annemarie Bilclough (ed.), Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature (exh. cat.), Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 15 August 2022 - 8 January 2023 (published 2021), pp. 32-33