1894
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Two squirrels sitting on a log is a 1894 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Beatrix Potter painted *Two squirrels sitting on a log* around 1894. She used watercolour, a tricky medium for fine detail. The squirrels sit on a log. This wasn’t just a hobby. Potter made several versions of this scene, even a back view of the squirrels. It might have been a design for a greeting card. Check out more by Beatrix Potter.
A highly detailed watercolour study from around 1894 depicts two red squirrels on a log, one of which is eating a nut, with white fur highlights applied in gouache over pencil underdrawing. The composition, likely intended as a greetings card design for Hildesheimer & Faulkner, exists in multiple versions, including variations with three squirrels and alternative perspectives. Acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest, the work is one of several studies Potter made of red squirrels before their inclusion in *The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin* (1903).
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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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