1909
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Studies of a sheep's head is a 1909 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Beatrix Potter painted *Studies of a sheep’s head* in watercolour between 1905 and 1913. It fits her lifelong habit of drawing the animals she kept and studied. She started sketching pets as a child and kept detailed notes on each creature. Her sharp eye for nature later shaped the stories and illustrations we still love. Look up more of her animal sketches at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The sheet contains four studies of a sheep's head, two rendered solely in pencil and two incorporating watercolour. The work was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest, a collection of approximately 2,150 items related to Beatrix Potter and her family.
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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