Beatrix Potter1866–1943drawing
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Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) is one of the world's best-loved children's authors and illustrators. She wrote the majority of the twenty-three Original Peter Rabbit Books between 1901 and 1913. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale.
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The study of a tortoise on the front of this sheet is thought to relate to Aesop’s fable, ‘The Hare and the Tortoise’. Potter’s interest in Aesop can be traced back to the 1890s, when, before becoming a published author, Beatrix Potter wrote out versions of, and made illustrations for, Aesop’s fables. She came back to her early interest in Aesop in 1918 with the publication of The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse (Frederick Warne), based on the fable of ‘The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse’. Potter then continued developing ideas based on Aesop’s fables in relation to her next book, which she planned as an amalgam of fables featuring Miss Jenny Crow and a Fox, as well as grapes, frogs and a stork. She sent a draft to her publishers, Frederick Warne & Co., writing, ‘I very much hope this may find favour? As I have (perhaps rashly!) started some of the pictures. Also crow shooting starts on Saturday so I have hopes of both models & pies.’ Her publishers, however, were unconvinced, replying: ‘it is not Miss Potter, it is Aesop.’
This study also reflects Potter’s interest in natural history illustration, and may possibly show her own pet tortoise.
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