12
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Flower studies; a flower similar to purple vetch and dianthus is a 12 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a watercolour piece called Flower studies. It features a flower similar to purple vetch and dianthus. The artist, Beatrix Potter, created this work during a summer stay in the Scottish borders in 1894. She made many studies of flowers from nature during this time. To learn more about the style and technique used in this piece, look up the movement: Realism.
Two botanical sketches on a landscape-format card depict a plant resembling purple vetch and dianthus. The left study, sketched in pencil with watercolour and pen-and-ink highlights, shows green leaves and purple-striped flowers. The right side features a watercolour study of a single pink dianthus with a brownish stem and green leaves, accompanied by unfinished pen-and-ink sketches of the same flower below.
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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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