1894
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Rough sketch illustrating 'The Three Spinners' is a 1894 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Beatrix Potter made this watercolor sketch in the 1890s. It shows rough lines for a fairy tale scene. The sketch may relate to *The Three Spinners*, a Grimm tale about three women who spin nonstop. She planned to publish a set of fairy tales but never did. Some of her early sketches survive today. Check out more of Beatrix Potter.
A rough pencil and watercolor sketch by Beatrix Potter, dated to the 1890s, depicts a young girl at the entrance of a house conversing with an elderly woman holding a distaff. The drawing is annotated with Potter’s note, “Old fairy woman is rather good. She should have an enormous foot,” suggesting its connection to the Grimm fairy tale *The Three Spinners*. The work is part of the Linder Bequest, acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1973. It has also been linked to the story of Snow White.
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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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