1905
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
The Toads' Tea Party is a 1905 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Post-Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Beatrix Potter painted *The Toads' Tea Party* around 1905. It’s a watercolour made to illustrate a playful rhyme in a children’s book. The rhyme imagines tiny toads sipping tea from acorn cups on a mushroom table. Potter didn’t publish the rhymes until 1917, so this stayed private for years. Check out more of her work at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A finished drawing by Beatrix Potter from around 1905, executed in pen and ink with watercolour, depicts six toads seated on toadstools arranged around a toadstool table, consuming cake and drinking from acorn cups in a woodland setting. A seventh toad stands nearby observing the scene, while each figure wears a distinctively coloured jacket in shades of brown, green, pink, or blue. The work was created to illustrate a rhyme intended for an unpublished 1905 book of nursery rhymes. The drawing was later acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1973 as part of 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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