1901
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Studies of hart's-tongue fern is a 1901 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Post-Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Beatrix Potter painted detailed watercolours of plants and ferns. This sheet shows hart’s-tongue fern studies from May 1901. She kept a sharp eye on nature, even before her famous Peter Rabbit tales. She liked drawing ferns and other small plants in great detail. This kind of careful study helped her understand how plants grow. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
Five watercolour stems of male fern (Dryopteris felix-mas) are shown in various lengths, each with a curled tip, executed in greens and browns over pencil. The sheet was completed in May 1901 and later became part of the Linder Bequest, entering the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1973.
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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