The Beautiful Watercolours Of Beatrix Potter Book Illustrations
Beatrix Potter book illustrations are famous throughout the world
. These intricately and delicately drawn anthropomorphic figures that are featured in her books are well loved by generations of children. Potter drew pictures of small creatures which she then dressed in human style clothing.
Beatrix was born in Kensington, London at the end of July in eighteen hundred and sixty six. Her parents were very wealthy as they had both inherited large sums of money. It was customary at the time for upper class girls to be educated at home, and so Beatrix was taught by a governess. This meant that she did not have much chance to mix with children of her own age, as her younger brother was sent away to boarding school. Her pets were often her only company.
Her most conventional pets were two rabbits, called Benjamin and Peter. Her less conventional pets included ferrets, frogs and a bat. She would watch them for hours, often doing sketches of them. Every summer her wealthy barrister father would rent a country house for the family. The family holidayed in Perthshire, Scotland for eleven years before her father rented a home in the Lake District. It was during these summers that Potter developed her lifelong love of the country side. She spent many hours drawing and painting the flora and fauna, and also the landscapes.
In eighteen eighty two, Beatrix Potter met the local vicar in the Lake District. His thoughts influenced how she would later think about the countryside. His name was Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, and some thirteen years later he would set up the National Trust which sought to preserve the country side for future generations to enjoy.
Potters parent did not want her to study or to work for a living, and so from the ages of fifteen to thirty she acted as their housekeeper. It had been her ambition to study at the Royal Botanic Gardens, but in spite of being introduce there by an uncle, she was not accepted as women were not allowed. She become respected in the field of mycology, and a paper that she had written was later presented by her uncle. As a woman she was not allowed into meetings.
She never gave up drawing animals, though, and still drew many pictures. She sent one of these pictures, along with a story, to the five year old son of one of her former governesses. The mother thought it was good enough to be made into a book and she sent the letter back to Potter for her to try to get it published.
This first book was The Tale of Peter Rabbit. It failed to find a publisher so she self published the book. It proved to be a success, securing her a publisher for her subsequent books. She wrote twenty three books in total.
She fell in love with the publisher of her books, and became engaged to him. Unfortunately he passed away before they could be married. She later married someone else, and they lived together in Hilltop, the farm which she had bought in the Lake District with the proceeds of her books. When she died she owned a lot of land in the Lake District which she willed to the National Trust. Beatrix Potter book illustrations are admired as being beautifully drawn.
by: Emily Miller Jee
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