1894
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Study of mushrooms is a 1894 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Beatrix Potter painted this fungi study with watercolour. It’s a quiet, close-up look at nature’s small forms. She worked in the late 1800s, when people were just starting to take fungi seriously. Potter wasn’t just writing stories—she also cared deeply about mushrooms and lichens. She filled notebooks with careful drawings to help scientists. Her science art lives at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A landscape-format drawing in watercolour over pencil depicts three detailed studies of brownish mushrooms identified as Amanita asper, with white highlights added in gouache. Two smaller, less finished mushroom studies accompany the main drawings. The work was likely created between 1887 and 1901 and is part of the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection, acquired in 1973 through 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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