1906
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Endpaper design for a foreign translation of the Peter Rabbit books is a 1906 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Post-Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting is an endpaper design for a foreign translation of the Peter Rabbit books. Beatrix Potter designed it to be more colourful than her usual plain endpapers. She took a strong interest in the design of her books, and this endpaper features characters from her stories. You can learn more about her work at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
An endpaper design in watercolour and pen and ink, outlined in pencil, features a decorative border with characters from Beatrix Potter’s stories, including Mrs. Tittlemouse with a brush, Brown Owl reading, Peter Rabbit holding a radish, Tom Kitten, Squirrel Nutkin, and a mouse from *The Tailor of Gloucester*, alongside a robin and patterned elements such as a tea set and a pie. The design was created for a foreign translation of the *Peter Rabbit* books and is a variant of an earlier endpaper used in *The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse* (1910), modified to remove most books held by the characters.…
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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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