1899
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Harvest scene, Esthwaite Water is a 1899 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolour shows a quiet lakeside harvest scene near Esthwaite Water. Beatrix Potter painted it between 1896 and 1902, using fine brushwork and soft colours typical of the Impressionist and Realist styles. Potter knew the spot well—she first visited in 1896 and later bought Hill Top nearby. You can almost feel the quiet of an afternoon on Oatmeal Crag by the water. For another view of her work, look up the artist Beatrix Potter.
A watercolour by Beatrix Potter from about 1902 depicts a harvest scene at Esthwaite Water, featuring a golden field in the foreground, a band of trees and the lake in the middle ground, and hills along the far shore. The work, inscribed “Harvest. Bunny,” was circulated among members of a London drawing society, whose comments focus on the distant view while questioning the treatment of the foreground. Potter noted that landscape elements in her submissions were generally preferred by the group. The painting entered the Victoria and Albert Museum’s collection in 1973 as part of the Linder…
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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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