Introducing Beatrix Potter
Introducing Beatrix Potter
Find out more about the life of one of the world's best-selling and best-loved children's authors
The V&A is a major resource for the study of Beatrix Potter. The museum holds the world's largest collection of her drawings, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and related materials. Besides studies for her Tales, nursery rhymes and fairy tales, the collection is strong in natural history and landscape watercolours and includes some family archival material.
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Find out more about the life of one of the world's best-selling and best-loved children's authors
Beatrix Potter: a life drawing nature
Explore a selection of highlights from Beatrix's life of drawing nature
Leslie Linder and the Beatrix Potter collection
How he cracked the code of Beatrix Potter's secret journal and showed the world her art.
Beatrix Potter's inspirations
From the most mundane everyday objects to majestic landscapes
Peter Rabbit: the tale of 'The Tale'
"I don't know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits, whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter…"
Beatrix Potter's first sketchbook, aged 8
Explore Beatrix Potter's earliest surviving sketchbook
The Roly-Poly Pudding by Beatrix Potter
Explore the full, original illustrated manuscript
Illustration inspired by Beatrix Potter's botanical drawing
A brief history of vampires – in print, photography and posters
Discover, if you dare, how Count Dracula haunts the V&A's collections
Experience Beatrix Potter's Lake District
Epic panoramic footage of its mountains and lakes, featuring locations where Potter lived, worked and admired