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Five drawings by Beatrix Potter are travelling from their Lake District home to go on display in London. The children's author and illustrator was also a keen naturalist and produced hundreds of ...
The end had come three days before Christmas to 77-year-old Mrs. William Heelis (“Beatrix Potter”), wife of a British solicitor, mistress of Hill Top Farm, Sawrey, Westmorland, England ...
On his death in 1973, the scholar and collector Leslie Linder (1904 – 73) left the V&A his unrivalled personal collection of about 2,400 Beatrix Potter drawings, manuscripts and books (many of which ...
Beatrix Potter has been drawing animals and making up stories about them since she was a child, but her parents have never recognized her as an artist. One day, Miss Potter offers her stories to a ...
Yes, Beatrix Potter really did have a rabbit named Peter, whose first name she borrowed for her beloved character. He was a Belgian buck rabbit named Peter Piper, who Potter spent hours observing and ...
Beatrix wasn’t Potter’s real first name ... Potter was fascinated by nature and was constantly recording the world around her in her drawings. Potter was especially interested in fungi and became an ...
This idyllic landscape inspired Beatrix Potter to craft her famous children's book illustrations about Peter Rabbit and other woodland creatures, but it also fueled her other, less well-known, passion ...
The V&A is a major resource for the study of Beatrix Potter. The museum holds the world's largest collection of her drawings, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and related materials. Besides ...