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most people don t know beatrix potter as an author and an illustrator creating stories like this one, the tale of peter rabbit, however this exhibition shows she was so much more than that, from a scientist to an award winning sheep farmer. she loves the hardwick sheep, which are a traditional lake district breed, and she ensured that this traditional breed would be protected. so, by buying up working farms, she made sure they stayed as traditional working farms and that they weren t taken over by developers for holiday homes or anything. before that, miss potter lived in south kensington. she loved collecting shells, rocks and fossils, studying them under the microscope. and, as a budding illustrator, she visited this museum. it s appropriate that it is at the v&a because her archive is stored here at the v&a. but also because she lived nearby, near the museum, and she visited as a child and as an adult, she created drawings, plaster casts from our collections, and some of our objects

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