1950
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
House in a steep-sided valley with a winding road is a 1950 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows a house high on a hillside with a road curling up to it. Beatrix Potter painted it in the early 1900s. She often sketched the Lake District where she later lived. Potter turned these views into scenes for her children’s books. The winding road and steep valley give the scene a quiet, storybook feel. Look next at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour and pencil study by Beatrix Potter depicts a house situated on a steep hillside, accompanied by a winding road below. The scene likely reflects a Lake District landscape, a region Potter frequently visited and later made her permanent home. The work may have been used as reference material for her book *The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-winkle*, set in the Newlands valley. The piece was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest.
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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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