Beatrix Potter1866–1943Sty Head Tarn
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Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) is one of the world's best-loved children's authors and illustrators. She wrote the majority of the twenty-three Original Peter Rabbit Books between 1901 and 1913. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale.
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Beatrix Potter visited the Victoria and Albert Museum (then known as the South Kensington Museum) while living in London; it was close to her home in Bolton Gardens, South Kensington. This watercolour and pencil drawing of Styhead Tarn in Borrowdale, the Lake District, is a copy that she made of a drawing she saw during one of her visits to the museum; John Constable’s Sty Head Tarn (museum number 177-1888). Potter’s copy was probably made in around 1900, a century later than Constable’s tour of the Lake District in 1806, when he made his sketch of the tarn. Reflecting on her artwork in 1943, Beatrix Potter called a suggestion that her painting style had been founded on Constable ‘silly’, but referred to him as ‘a great artist with a broad style’.
The scene shows Styhead Tarn with three great mountain peaks beyond; Great End, Scafell Pike and Lingmell.
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- BP.308
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- Victoria and Albert Museum: the museum's own open data · abgerufen vor 8 Tagen
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