Beatrix Potter
Helen Beatrix Potter was a British writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist. While Potter is widely admired for her study and watercolors of fungi, with which she earned respect in the field of mycology, she is best known for her beloved children's books, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tailor of Gloucester, and The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. Today we present one of her 22 illustrations for The Tailor of Gloucester.
In Beatrix Potter's beloved story, after the tailor presents the splendid cherry-colored wedding coat to the mayor, he is hailed as the most famous tailor in Gloucester. Celebrated for his precision and craftsmanship, Potter writes in the text accompanying this charming illustration that "his button-holes were the greatest triumph of it all. The stitches of those button-holes were so neat—so neat—I wonder how they could be stitched by an old man in spectacles, with crooked fingers, and a tailor's thimble. The stitches of those button-holes were so small—so small—they looked as if they had been made by little mice!"
Cute, isn't it? :)
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