1890
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Two rabbits in hats and coats with walking sticks walking through snow is a 1890 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Beatrix Potter painted these two rabbits in 1890, long before Peter Rabbit. She used watercolour to show them walking through snow in hats and coats. The scene was meant for holiday cards, not a children’s book. Potter sold six designs to a printer to help buy a machine. This one later appeared in a 1917 nursery rhyme book. It’s a quiet, wintry moment in her early work. See more of her art at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour drawing by Beatrix Potter from around 1890 depicts two rabbits in winter attire walking through snow. The left rabbit wears a blue hat, greyish-brown coat, and red mittens, while the right rabbit wears a blue hat, dark grey coat, red scarf, and mittens, both carrying walking sticks. The background includes snow, a hedge, and a fence. The work was created as a design for Hildesheimer & Faulkner and later adapted for *Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes* (1917). It was acquired by the V&A in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest.
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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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