Their controlling parents kept Potter and her brother, Bertram, isolated from other children for fear that they might “catch germs,” according to the National Trust.īeatrix Potter seated between her father Rupert (left) and brother Bertram (right), c.
Potter grew up a sheltered, creative child in Victorian-era London. “he theme of nature underpins everything she did,” the curator says. Potter’s passion for nature takes center stage in this exhibition, as co-curator Annemarie Bilclough tells Artnet News.
Highlights of the more than 200 objects on view include rarely seen Potter family photographs the author’s muddy clogs, used for outdoor traipsing and farming and her walking stick, complete with an inset magnifying glass that allowed her to better study the natural world, according to a V&A statement. Some sketches on display date to when Potter was just 8 or 9 years old, as Sarah Cascone reports for Artnet News. Museumgoers can visit in-person through January 2023, while viewers can also watch videos, read biographical essays and explore close-up reproductions of Potter’s finely detailed drawings online. Titled “ Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature,” the show explores the art and stories behind Potter’s world-famous creations, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit, as well as her lesser-known achievements as a sheep breeder and a scientific illustrator of fungi and beetles. © Tate / Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature at the Victoria and Albert Museum "The Mice at Work: Threading the Needle," The Tailor of Gloucester artwork, 1902 watercolour, ink and gouache on paper. And the museum where Potter sketched is now the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), which recently opened a new exhibition dedicated to the unconventional, art- and animal-filled life of Potter herself. That story became The Tailor of Gloucester (1902), one of Potter’s dozens of books that have collectively sold more than 250 million copies to date.
To Potter’s eye, the jacket’s button-hole stitches were “so small- so small-they looked as if they had been made by little mice!” Drawing from local legend about a miraculously appeared waistcoat, Potter wrote and illustrated her own version of events, where a poor tailor’s business is saved from ruin by a crew of singing, sewing mice. She went to make sketches of a silk 18th-century man’s waistcoat that had been expertly embroidered with neat pink, blue and green flowers. Early on in her career, beloved children’s author Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) paid several visits to the local museum in her native South Kensington, London.
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