An exhibition in Nashville of Beatrix Potter’s works explores ... The “picture letter” with little drawings would evolve into “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” Potter’s first book.

Beatrix Potter, also known as Helen Beatrix Potter, was a British author and illustrator best known for her children's books featuring animals. Her work in watercolour brought to life characters such ...

In the classic children's storybook The Tale of Peter Rabbit ... Available in the Frist Art Museum Gift Shop.  Join Annemarie Bilclough, curator of Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature, as she ...

Mrs Rabbit pouring out the tea for Peter while ... sensorily and emotionally. What Beatrix Potter’s drawings also represent are artifacts of communion and transmission. They draw us to a certain ...

The charming art sometimes belies the content of the stories. Beatrix Potter’s world is comforting ... the original illustrations for the Peter Rabbit books, her botanical and mycological ...

But newly-discovered pictures by Beatrix Potter suggest that the tales of ... The well-drawn collection contains a drawing of a rabbit strongly resembling her famed protagonist.

With “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” Beatrix Potter created what would become ... rabbits and other things she saw in nature. Here, drawings based on her magnified studies of a ground beetle.Credit ...

Mrs. Rabbit pours tea for Peter Rabbit while ... of her former governess (photo Elaine Velie/Hyperallergic) Beatrix Potter, “Drawing of Appley Dapply going to the cupboard” (1891) (© Victoria ...

These stories had not been published in the UK when Beatrix Potter was a child ... is very similar to her drawing of Peter and Benjamin in The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny, with ...