But it was during her family’s vacations in the spring and summer, often spent outside the city in Scotland, that Potter felt the least constrained, finding in those landscapes visions unseen in the smoggy capital. Living near the Natural History Museum, too, was a boon the institution served as a major source of inspiration and education. With a keen interest in science, she also learned to create her own slides of insects and used her brother’s microscope to examine and draw studies of these preserved marvels. She and her brother are known to have even dissected these creatures upon their deaths, and Potter would study their anatomies. Yet it’s where she cultivated her attention to detail early on, spending much of her time indoors - in part because of her strict parents - sketching her pets, which ranged from birds to bunnies to bats. (The book’s publication coincides with the 150th anniversary of the writer’s birth year.) With its smoky streets and limited greenery, Victorian London, where Potter’s family lived, was a difficult city for young Potter to find inspiration. Spread from The Art of Beatrix Potter (2016), published by Chronicle Books of Beatrix Potter with her pet rabbitĪn archive of about 200 images, organized geographically, each one accompanied by a description, The Art of Beatrix Potter relays Potter’s life through the regions that most influenced her, from London to Scotland to Wales.
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