1900
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Sty Head Tarn is a 1900 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Beatrix Potter painted a quiet landscape of Sty Head Tarn in the Lake District. She used watercolour and pencil around 1900. It’s a copy of an earlier work she saw at the museum. Potter spent years in London before moving to the countryside. She traced Constable’s version from 1820s and redrew it herself. This piece shows her love for the Lake District’s wild beauty. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
A watercolour and pencil work in landscape format depicts Styhead Tarn in Borrowdale, framed by three prominent peaks—Great End, Scafell Pike, and Lingmell—with a solitary figure positioned in the lower left corner. Executed in a subdued palette of browns, purples, blues, and greens, the piece was created around 1900 as a copy of John Constable’s earlier 1806 sketch held in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s collection. The drawing was later acquired by the museum in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest, which includes a wide range of Potter-related materials.
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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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