15 x 15 cm. (5.9 x 5.9 in.) The Tale of Benjamin Bunny: a group of twelve original watercolor and ink drawings on silk, numbered and captioned by the artist A series of 12 watercolor drawings on ...

Doppelgängers and transvestites, guns and gangsters, secret lives: these are not the first things that come to mind with Beatrix Potter. Yet the creator of Peter Rabbit and Hunca-Munca once wrote a ...

“I do not draw cats well,” Beatrix Potter complained to her publisher in 1916, at the age of fifty, after having been a celebrated author for more than a dozen years, with almost twenty published ...

Mrs Rabbit pouring out the tea for Peter while her children look on, 1902-1907. Linder Bequest. Museum no.BP.468. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London/courtesy of ...