Collection: Beatrix Potter Prints

Beatrix Potter prints: Peter Rabbit, mice and toads

Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) was a keen naturalist before she became one of the most loved children’s authors in the world. She drew rabbits, mice and hedgehogs from life, and her watercolours combine the precision of a scientific illustration with the gentle humour of her stories. Our prints reproduce illustrations from her early books, in the public domain.

The Tailor of Gloucester

Published in 1903, The Tailor of Gloucester tells how mice finish a waistcoat for a poor, sick tailor. We offer several of its most charming scenes: the mice threading the needle, the cat Simpkin and the teapot, the mice listening to the tailor and a lady mouse in a mob cap.

Peter Rabbit, Hunca Munca and friends

The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) made Beatrix Potter famous: our prints show Peter Rabbit and his family and Mrs Rabbit with Peter. From The Tale of Two Bad Mice (1904), Hunca Munca sweeps the floor of a doll’s house, and the Toads’ Tea Party is a delightful little scene painted around 1905.

Decorating a nursery with Beatrix Potter prints

With their soft colours and small scale, Beatrix Potter’s illustrations are ideal for a nursery or a child’s bedroom. Hang three scenes from the same story in a row at a child’s eye level, in white or pale wood frames. They also make a lovely birth or christening gift.

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