1892
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Rabbits' Christmas Party: The Arrival is a 1892 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Five rabbits in blue coats and top hats, each carrying an umbrella, struggle through snow to reach a house. Three additional rabbits watch from a window as the group approaches. The work is one of four watercolours in the sequence *The Rabbits’ Christmas Party*, dated circa 1892. It was given by Beatrix Potter to her aunt Lucy Roscoe and later entered the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the Linder Bequest in 1973.
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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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