1903
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Gentleman mouse bowing beside a teacup is a 1903 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Beatrix Potter painted Gentleman Mouse Bowing Beside a Teacup in 1903. It’s a small watercolour held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Potter usually wrote children’s stories like Peter Rabbit. This painting comes from her book The Tailor of Gloucester, set in the 1700s. Her books often start “Once upon a time,” but this one names a real place and time. The mouse in the painting is dressed like a tiny gentleman. Look up the artist Beatrix Potter next.
A mouse in eighteenth-century attire performs a curtsy beside a bone china teacup in this drawing by Beatrix Potter, likely created in 1903. The illustration is a preparatory study for a scene in *The Tailor of Gloucester*, where a gentleman mouse bows to the tailor. Acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest, the work reflects Potter’s meticulous research into historical costume and setting.
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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