Watercolour
Over het werk
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.
Verder lezen
This study of a stream among lush vegetation on a hillside may be a Lake District view. Beatrix Potter’s family holidayed in the Lake District regularly from 1885 and in 1905 she cemented her connection to the area by purchasing Hill Top. However, it was not until her marriage to Lakeland solicitor William Heelis in 1913 that she settled there permanently. Some of Potter’s well-known ‘little books’ are inspired by the Lakeland landscape. The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-winkle (Frederick Warne & Co., 1905) is set in the Newlands valley and includes an illustration of a mountain stream. Although the view shown is different to this one, it is possible the study could have been made with the tale in mind.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Gegevens
- Inventarisnummer
- BP.1129(ii)
