Helen Beatrix Potter

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Simpkin Housekeeping

c.1902
  • Contemporary living room
  • Cosy living room
  • Reading corner
  • Hallway
  • Scandinavian kitchen
  • Traditional kitchen
  • Contemporary bedroom
  • Rustic bedroom
  • Contemporary living room
  • Cosy living room
  • Reading corner
  • Hallway
  • Scandinavian kitchen
  • Traditional kitchen
  • Contemporary bedroom
  • Rustic bedroom
Helen Beatrix Potter: Simpkin Housekeeping

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Simpkin Housekeeping shows the tailor of Gloucester’s cat catching mice in mousetraps and upturned teacups. Later in the story, the tailor will find and release them, leading to Simpkin’s unfaithful act of hiding the ‘cherry coloured twist’ the tailor needs for making the mayor’s wedding coat. Throughout the story, Potter alternates between lifelike and exaggerated depictions of the cat – sometimes shown on two legs, wearing a coat and carrying a pipkin of milk, and other times as a naturalistic cat, such as here.
  • Artist Helen Beatrix Potter
  • Artwork Simpkin Housekeeping
  • Date of work c.1902
  • Credit Original: Ink, watercolour and gouache on paper 11.1 x 9.2 cm Tate. Presented by Capt. K. W. G Duke RN 1946
Helen Beatrix Potter (1866 –1943) was a British writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist. Potter's study and watercolours of fungi led to her being widely respected in the field of mycology, but she is best known for the successful series of children's books the wrote and illustrated, including The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tailor of Gloucester and The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. 22 of her illustrations for The Tailor of Gloucester form part of Tate’s collection, and can be viewed by appointment in Tate Britain’s Prints and Drawings Room.
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As each print is handmade to order they take a little longer to prepare. We’ll dispatch your order as soon as it is ready, separately from any other items.

REFUNDS & RETURNS

As custom prints are made to order, unfortunately we cannot accept returns if you have changed your mind or made a mistake.

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