Watercolour
Über das Werk
This background study features the crossroads behind Hill Top where Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) and the Hawkshead solicitor William Heelis often walked during their courtship. In her initial studies, Potter sometimes departed from her signature light palette. This watercolour expresses the moody and romantic quality of the Lakeland scenery – often associated with the Romantic poets.
The study was later used by Potter to serve as the background for the frontispiece for The Tale of Pigling Bland (1913). Two pigs were added in the foreground, Pigling Bland and his brother Alexander on their way to market.
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
Victoria and Albert Museum
Angaben
- Inventarnummer
Derweil im Leben von Beatrix Potter
Das ganze Leben1903–1922
Two or three books a year with the editor Norman Warne
“The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin” and “The Tailor of Gloucester” followed “Peter Rabbit” in 1903 — both also began as picture letters to the Moore children. Working with the editor Norman Warne, Beatrix published two or three little books a year — 23 in all in that format, the last, in 1922, being “Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes”; the royalties gave her a degree of independence, though she still lived with her parents.
1905–1909
Learning to farm: a tenant, sheep and Castle Farm
The tenant farmer John Cannon and his family stayed on to run the farm while Beatrix made improvements and learned the techniques of fell farming and livestock; the following year she added sheep. To protect her boundaries she turned to the Hawkshead solicitors W. H. Heelis & Son and, with William Heelis acting for her, bought adjoining pasture — in 1909 the 20 acres of Castle Farm across the road from Hill Top.
1905–1913 · Ausbildung
governance
