The Beatrix Potter Collection DVD | Peter Rabbit

We're celebrating Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature by asking nature illustrators to draw something inspired by her work. The first in our series: Lizzie Harper Illustration 🦋 ‘I chose to draw the Red Admiral butterfly, Vanessa atalanta, because I remembered there being one in the passages of poor Mrs. Tittlemouse’s overly full home. Beatrix Potter’s illustrations are glorious. As a natural history illustrator, she is really important to me. Her work is exacting, but has a humanity to it. And as

Curator Philip Palmer takes us through "Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature" and shares how the beloved children's book author rooted her fiction in the natural world. Beatrix Potter, creator of unforgettable animal characters like Peter Rabbit, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, spent her childhood summers in Scotland and the English Lake District nourished her love of nature. Potter's famous menagerie of pets inspired her picture letters and published tales. Her study of botany and mycology

Looking forward to spring! The beautiful illustrations of Beatrix Potter🌿🌸🌿 | Victorian Tea Time