1905
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Come dance a jig to my Granny's pig is a 1905 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Post-Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The painting is called "Come dance a jig to my Granny's pig" by Beatrix Potter. It was created in 1905 as part of a series of drawings for a book of rhymes. Beatrix Potter worked with her publisher to develop some of these rhymes into stories, which became very popular. You can learn more about Beatrix Potter's work at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour and pen-and-ink drawing by Beatrix Potter from 1905 depicts a black cat playing a fiddle on a wooden post while three hens dance in the farmyard below, observed by a cockerel, three other hens—one perched on the sty’s red-tiled roof—and a pig inside the sty, all framed within a single black line. The scene was created as part of an unpublished 1905 collection of nursery rhymes Potter developed to assist her publisher during financial difficulties. Acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest, the drawing remained unpublished in her lifetime.
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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