1894
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Rabbit opening a door to find a basket of food, including carrots is a 1894 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Beatrix Potter painted a cozy indoor scene in watercolour around 1894. A rabbit stands on its hind legs, paw on a door handle. Inside waits a basket full of food, and carrots are piled on top. This was one of Potter’s early imaginary pictures. She drew it to practice her art and later turned her skills to children’s books. Check out more watercolours by the same artist.
A preparatory drawing by Beatrix Potter depicts a rabbit opening a door to discover a basket of food on the doorstep, including carrots. The sketch was created around 1894 as part of a design later featured on the front cover of *Changing Pictures: a Book of Transformation Pictures*, published by Ernest Nister. In the final version, the basket also contains turnips, and a similar scene appears in Potter’s later work *Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes*. The drawing was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest.
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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