テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「Helen Beatrix Potter was born #onthisday in 1866—best known for her illustrated children’s books featuring animals. 🐁 This illustration, ‘The Mice Stitching Button-Holes’ is from her second and favourite book, ‘The Tailor of Gloucester’🧵 🍄 Beatrix Potter was also a natural scientist and conservationist, whose studies and watercolours of fungi led to her being widely respected in that field. ⛰️ With the proceeds from her children’s books she bought a farm in the Lake District, gradually purchasing additional land to preserve the unique landscape. When she died in 1943, she left almost all her land to the National Trust, and is credited with preserving much of the land that now makes up the Lake District National Park.」7月28日 20時33分