1892
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Pussy passed by, and she peeped in is a 1892 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolour is by Beatrix Potter, created around 1892. It's titled "Pussy passed by, and she peeped in". Beatrix Potter was a children's author and illustrator. She wrote and illustrated the famous "Tale of Peter Rabbit" and explored nursery rhymes in her work, like "Three little mice sat down to spin". You can learn more about Beatrix Potter at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour and pen-and-ink drawing by Beatrix Potter from around 1892 depicts three mice seated on Thonet chairs, turning away from their spinning wheels in alarm at a cat’s face visible through a window. The scene corresponds to the line “Pussy passed by, and she peeped in” from the nursery rhyme “Three little Mice sat down to spin.” The work was part of an unpublished booklet Potter prepared around 1892 before adapting one of its designs for *The Tailor of Gloucester* in 1903. The drawing 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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