1892
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Three little Mice sat down to spin is a 1892 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Beatrix Potter painted this watercolour around 1892. It shows mice busy with a familiar nursery rhyme. The work blends Impressionism and Realism, keeping things soft yet precise. She planned a tiny booklet for the rhyme, not just single pictures. It would fold out like a fan and have text pages too. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum if you want to see this piece.
The watercolour and pen and ink drawing depicts three mice seated in bentwood chairs by Gebrüder Thonet, spinning at their wheels within a low-panelled room. The setting includes a loom and a recessed window, illustrating the first line of the nursery rhyme "Three little Mice sat down to spin." Created around 1892, the work was part of an unpublished booklet Potter developed from the rhyme. It was later acquired by the V&A as part of the Linder Bequest in 1973.
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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