1894
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Illustration to 'Little Ida's Flowers' is a 1894 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Beatrix Potter made delicate watercolours in the 1890s. One shows flowers from Hans Christian Andersen’s tale “Little Ida’s Flowers.” The soft colours fit her early fairy-tale sketches. In the 1890s she drew scenes for Cinderella, Puss-in-Boots, and others. Some images were meant for tiny fairy-tale books that never got printed. See more of her work at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour and pen-and-ink illustration by Beatrix Potter depicts a child observing tulips dancing through an open doorway, accompanied by a German text and a border of tulip motifs. Created around the 1890s, the work relates to Hans Christian Andersen’s tale *Little Ida’s Flowers*. It was later acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest, which includes a significant collection of Potter’s works and related materials.
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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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