The illustrations and writing date back to the 1890s before Potter penned the Peter Rabbit tale. One of the drawings, from 1984, shows Peter Rabbit seven years before he appeared in his first story.

He was a Belgian buck rabbit named Peter Piper , who Potter spent hours observing and drawing and would often take for walks on a leash. She later described in a letter how he liked to lie in ...

As Potter once admitted, the ‘careful botanical studies of my youth’ informed the ‘reality’ of her fantasy drawings. Although subsequent stories such as The Tale of Benjamin Bunny would contain more ...

Beatrix Potter's popular character Peter Rabbit has been chosen as the design for an art trail's money-raising statues. Forty individually decorated statues of the sketchbook rabbit will be dotted ...

an ellipse and a rabbit image. The "time seemed appropriate" for the hieroglyph version, due in April, translators said, as the story had already been published in 35 languages. The British Museum ...

Here, drawings based on her magnified studies of ... had bought all 15 copies of “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” from a London bookstore to keep at Buckingham Palace. In her lifetime, Potter ...

Indeed, Potter's childhood drawings and paintings of plants and ... One of her earliest and most beloved stories, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, developed from a letter she wrote to a friend's son ...

For example, her illustration of Brer pretending to be Mr Billy Malone in the Remus tale In Some Lady’s Garden is very similar to her drawing of Peter and Benjamin in The Tale of Peter Rabbit ...

Taylor curator and department head of literary and historical manuscripts at the Morgan Library and Museum, credits much of Peter Rabbit’s everlasting ... with the modern art movement, which ...