For the publication of A Celebration of Beatrix Potter (Warne, Nov. 1), Penguin Random House senior art director Giuseppe Castellano commissioned text and illustrations from more than 30 contemporary ...

COIN collectors have been sent into a spin after a humble 50p coin was listed on eBay for a mind-boggling sum. A seller from ...

Spread from The Art of Beatrix Potter (2016), published by Chronicle Books (all illustrations © Frederick Warne & Co.) I grew up on a steady diet of Beatrix Potter ...

Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature brings together an array of artwork, books, manuscripts, artifacts, and letters from institutions like the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Trust, and the ...

“I do not draw cats well,” Beatrix Potter complained to her publisher in 1916, at the age of fifty, after having been a celebrated author for more than a dozen years, with almost twenty published ...

A new exhibition features forensic illustrations of flora and fauna drawn by the Peter Rabbit writer when she was just nine Claire Allfree is a writer specialising in books and theatre, but she also ...

Beatrix Potter was a frequent guest at the Suffolk mansion. National Trust Images - Rupert Truman A newly-discovered drawing of the north roof of Melford Hall by Beatrix Potter. National Trust - ...

Four new illustrations by beloved children’s author Beatrix Potter have been discovered by staff a National Trust property in the UK. The line drawings were found hidden inside books at Melford Hall ...

The Lake District in northwest England is a verdant expanse of rolling grassy countryside, dotted with trees and lakes, and surrounded by mountains. This idyllic landscape inspired Beatrix Potter to ...

Mrs. Rabbit pours tea for Peter Rabbit while her other children watch. (1902–1907) (© Victoria and Albert Museum; image courtesy Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.) Beatrix Potter was born in 1866 to a ...

Born Helen Beatrix Potter on July 28, 1866, the author spent her formative years under the care of a governess and largely left to her own imagination on the third floor of her wealthy family’s home ...