1892
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Rabbits' Christmas Party: The Departure is a 1892 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is one of four watercolours by Beatrix Potter showing rabbits at a Christmas party. It’s the final scene, where the rabbits head home after the feast. Potter painted these in 1892, long before her Peter Rabbit books made her famous. Potter gave these works to her aunt. The series shows the rabbits eating, playing, and now leaving—simple but charming stories in paint. Look up Beatrix Potter next.
A square watercolor depicts rabbits in blue coats preparing to leave a Christmas gathering, one holding a candle to guide another out the door on the right. The scene is the final in a sequence of four narrative works titled *The Rabbits’ Christmas Party*, created around 1892. Beatrix Potter gave the drawings to her aunt, Lucy Roscoe, before they entered the Victoria and Albert Museum’s collection 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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