Rabbits

Illustration from ‘The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies’ by Beatrix Potter, UK, 1909

Beatrix Potter drew her pictures in pen, brown ink, and watercolours. This is one of the illustrations from her picture books which are loved around the world. When making this book, Beatrix Potter was staying with an aunt and uncle in Wales. She described their garden at Gwaeynynog as ‘the prettiest kind’, where old-fashioned flowers mingled with currant bushes, and she loved to draw it.

Beatrix Potter had to pay for her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), to be published. It was followed by over 20 more.

Did you know?

The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies is about the six children of Benjamin and Flopsy.