1919
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
The Fox and the Crow is a 1919 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The Fox and the Crow is a watercolour work by Beatrix Potter. It was created in 1919. Beatrix Potter was known for her illustrations of animal characters, often rendering them with their natural behaviors and anatomy in mind. This is evident in her work on Aesop's fables, which she revisited in 1918. To learn more about the techniques used in watercolour works like The Fox and the Crow, look up the technique of sfumato.
An oval illustration depicts a crow perched on a branch with a piece of cheese in its beak, while a fox gazes upward at the bird. The work was created around 1919 as part of Beatrix Potter’s planned book based on Aesop’s fable "The Fox and the Crow." It was later acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest, a collection 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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