{"id":1498,"date":"2023-03-04T17:47:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T22:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2023-03-04T17:47:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T22:47:51","slug":"ode-to-beatrix-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Beatrix Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On my bucket list is a visit Beatrix Potter<\/a>‘s home in the Lake District<\/a> in England. I have long been a fan of her books and artwork, as well as of her life story, as an author, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist. Although I have not yet made it to Hill Top<\/a>, her home in Near Sawrey<\/a>, and other places that are associated with her, I did have the pleasure of visiting an exhibition about her artwork and love of nature at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> in London. This exhibition, Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature<\/a>, was one of the reasons for visiting England last October. In the midst of a wonderful week visiting my friends, Jane and Michael in West Sussex, we took the train to London, and found our way to the Victoria and Albert Museum via an underground tunnel. Entering the exhibition was entering Beatrix’s world. We saw familiar friends such as Benjamin Bunny<\/a>, Jemima Puddleduck<\/a>, Peter Rabbit<\/a>, and even the waistcoats that Beatrix used for inspiration in her book, The Tailor of Gloucester<\/a>. At the end of the exhibit one could sit and enjoy scenes from the Lake District, to make you almost feel like you were there. So, until I can visit the actual setting, this was a wonderful way to get a small taste of Beatrix Potter’s landscape, via her artwork. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Entrance to exhibit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Benjamin Bunny<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beatrix Potter artwork – a black bunny and Mrs. Tiggle-Winkle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jemima Puddleduck and Peter Rabbit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Waistcoats which inspired the Tailor of Gloucester’s waistcoat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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These cute little mice appeared throughout the exhibit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A young fan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On my bucket list is a visit Beatrix Potter‘s home in the Lake District in England. I have long been a fan of her books and artwork, as well as of her life story, as an author, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist. Although I have not yet made it to Hill Top, her home in … Continue reading Ode to Beatrix Potter<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[621,622,623],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-beatrix-potter","tag-drawn-to-nature","tag-victoria-and-albert-museum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Beatrix-Potter-exhibit-scenery.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}