1913
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Aunt Pettitoes feeding her piglets is a 1913 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows Aunt Pettitoes tending to her piglets. Beatrix Potter painted it in 1913 for her book *The Tale of Pigling Bland*. She often made small paintings like this for her stories. Potter had eight piglets in the tale. She wrote that eight was too many to care for at once. The watercolor was a working sketch, not the final book illustration. Check out more at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour and pen-and-ink illustration in portrait format depicts Aunt Pettitoes holding two buckets while her piglets eat from a trough in an open field. The scene differs from the version used in *The Tale of Pigling Bland* by Potter’s 1913 publication, featuring a plain apron, adjusted piglet positions, tonal variations, and a wider view with more sky and foreground grass. Created by Beatrix Potter around 1913, the work was later acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Helen Beatrix Heelis (née Potter; 28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943), usually known as Beatrix Potter ( BEE-ə-triks), was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist.
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