1908
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
View of mountains including the Langdale Pikes is a 1908 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Post-Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a watercolour view of the Langdale Pikes by Beatrix Potter. It’s one of many mountain scenes she painted during long summers in England’s Lake District. Potter spent decades there with her family before moving to the countryside herself. She made it while writing her famous children’s books. The same hills and light appear in Peter Rabbit and other tales. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour over pencil landscape sketch depicts a view across a body of water toward distant hills, with the Langdale Pikes visible on the right side of the composition. The scene is set beneath a cloudy, possibly stormy, sky. The work was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest, a collection of approximately 2,150 items related to Beatrix Potter and her family.
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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