This study of ‘Kep’, one of Beatrix Potter’s sheepdogs, dates from a visit to Near Sawrey in March 1909, when Potter made a number of studies of the Lakeland landscape in snow. Potter gave this drawing to Stephanie Hyde Parker, the daughter of her cousin Ethel, who stuck it in an album: remnants of the album can be seen in the floral motif adhered to the lower left of the design, and in a drawing by Amy Hyde Parker attached to the back of the study.
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.
Beatrix Potter purchased Hill Top in Near Sawrey, her first Lake District farm, in 1905. After this date she visited Hill Top regularly for holidays, eventually settling permanently in nearby Castle Cottage following her marriage in 1913.
In the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Click on photo to enlarge.
3 comments:
Thanks,Rosemary. This is a new to me Beatrix Potter! xo
annette -- That watercolor of Kep is new to me too. It is in storage at the Victoria and Albert Museum and I am so glad they shared it so all of us could see it. It's too bad it was taped down in a scrapbook album by the previous owner.
xo, Rosemary
I really love this and have come back several times to view. Have nothing clever to say other than I just really love it.
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