Beatrix Potter: Illustrator, storyteller, farmer, and ... scientist?
Over her lifetime, Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) kept more than 90 creatures as pets, and she drew most of them. Her children’s books, starting with “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” demonstrate her skills at depicting animals. But what’s less well known is her passion for botany and the role that mushrooms indirectly played in the publication of her first book.
In “Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature,” a gorgeous new book packed with examples of Potter’s sketches and watercolors, author Annemarie Bilclough and other contributors underscore the love of nature that informed Potter’s work.
Helen Beatrix Potter was born into
