概述

1893年，Beatrix Potter给她以前的一个女家庭教师和好朋友Annie Moore的小儿子写了一封信。在信中她用文字和图画创造了一个关于Mr. McGregor家花园里的小兔子不幸遭遇的故事。

 “亲爱的Noel，我不知道该给你写些什么。就让我给你讲一个关于四只小兔子的故事吧。它们的名字叫做Flopsy，Mopsy，Cottontail和Peter……” ----Beatrix Potter，致Noel Moore，1893年9月4日

一个多世纪后，Potter写的Peter兔子的故事仍然是世界上最受儿童喜爱的故事之一。

2002年是Frederick Warne的作品《The Tale of Peter Rabbit》出版一百周年。未来几年将会有其他几个最受欢迎形象庆祝他们的百年华诞，其中包括Tom Kitten，Jemima Puddle-duck，Mrs. Tittlemouse和Mr. Jeremy Fisher。

这个展览将为向中国的新读者们介绍和推广Beatrix Potter的生活与工作提供一个契机，并了解她在文学和艺术上的成就。展览也将展现她在自然历史、农业和英国乡村的保护方面的广泛兴趣。这份激情为她的写作和插画带来了灵感，提供了内容。之前的Beatrix Potter巡展每天吸引超过1000名观众前来参观。

Beatrix Potter的小说给全世界的孩子和成人带来欢乐。它们被翻译成超过35种语言。从1984年开始，Beatrix Potter的作品在世界各地发行超过1亿册。2004年，Frederick Warne把经过授权的23本原版Peter Rabbit的书引入到中国，由Wu Qing, Chen Shu 和Shi Mingli翻译成中文，并由中国少年儿童出版社在北京出版发行。

维多利亚-阿尔伯特博物馆馆藏

维多利亚-阿尔伯特博物馆收藏有世界上最多的Beatrix Potter艺术作品。这部分藏品还在不断地增加，不断收纳尚未见诸于世的图画和照片。而且，维多利亚-阿尔伯特博物馆也收藏了一些外来收藏品，包括最近到的Frederick Warne藏品和整套原版插图版《The Tale of Peter Rabbit》。

来自维多利亚-阿尔伯特博物馆的Beatrix Potter藏品中的艺术作品已经在全世界主要的展览会上展出，特别是在澳大利亚、加拿大、法国、德国、日本和美国各地进行展出。维多利亚-阿尔伯特博物馆的馆藏珍品中包括《The Tale of Peter Rabbit》在内的小人书插画原稿；最初的铅笔画和钢笔素描；超过500幅由Beatrix的父亲Rupert Potter拍摄的Beatrix儿时的和青年时的照片；写生簿、文字手稿和信件，包括那封著名的在1893年9月6日寄给Noel Moore的Peter Rabbit插图信件；深入的自然历史研究；以及English Lake District的美丽风景。

展览内容

展览主题包括：

• Beatrix Potter的童年，包括照片和早期作品
• 艺术和文学的开端，包括圣诞贺卡作品
• 自然历史研究，包括真菌类和微生物的研究，这些研究影响了她的自然主义插画方法
• 给孩子们的信，包括她的早期的作品
• 出版《Tale of Peter Rabbit》的故事
• 她的作品，包括早期研究和已完成的插画作品
• Beatrix Potter作为一个自然资源保护论者和牧羊农场主的晚年

展览详细信息

该展览从2009年开始希望在中国多个城市进行巡展。

所有Beatrix Potter图画及书信版权所有F. Warne & Co. 2006

Beatrix Potter人物名称及插图的所有权利、版权和商标所有人为Frederick Warne& Co.

联系人： Ms Elizabeth Capon: touringexhibitions@vam.ac.uk

Introduction
Beatrix Potter conceived her story of a little rabbit’s misadventures in Mr. McGregor’s garden in 1893 as an illustrated letter to the young son of her friend and former governess, Annie Moore.

“My dear Noel, I don’t know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter …” ----Beatrix Potter, letter to Noel Moore, 4 September 1893

Over a century later, Potter’s tale of Peter Rabbit, remains one of the world’s best-loved children’s stories.

2002 celebrated the centenary of Frederick Warne’s publication of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. The next few years will celebrate the centenaries of other favourite characters, including Tom Kitten, Jemima Puddle-duck, Mrs. Tittlemouse and Mr. Jeremy Fisher.

This exhibition will provide an opportunity to introduce and promote the life and work of Beatrix Potter to a new readership in China, exploring her literary and artistic achievements. It will also reveal the breadth of her interests in natural history, farming, and the preservation of the English countryside – passions that inspired and informed her work as a writer and illustrator. Previous touring exhibitions of Beatrix Potter’s work have attracted well over 1,000 visitors a day.

Beatrix Potter’s tales delight both children and adults all over the world and are translated into more than 35 languages. Over 100 million Beatrix Potter books have been sold worldwide since 1984. In 2004 Frederick Warne introduced the original and authorised edition of the 23 Peter Rabbit books to China, translated into Mandarin by Wu Qing, Chen Shu and Shi Mingli and published in Beijing by Zhongguo Shao nian er tong chu ban she.
 
The V&A Collection
The Victoria and Albert Museum has the world’s largest collection of Beatrix Potter artworks. Its collection is continually expanding with new acquisitions of previously unseen drawings and photographs and, in addition, the V&A also houses several loan collections, soon to include the Frederick Warne Archive with its complete set of original illustrations to The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

Artworks from the V&A’s Beatrix Potter Collections have been exhibited in major exhibitions worldwide, in particular, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and locations throughout the USA.Among the V&A’s treasures are original book illustrations for the little books, including The Tale of Peter Rabbit; preliminary pencil and pen-and-ink sketches; over 500 photographs taken by Beatrix’s father, Rupert Potter, many of Beatrix as a child and young adult; sketchbooks, literary manuscripts and correspondence, including the remarkable original Peter Rabbit picture letter sent to Noel Moore on 6th September 1893; expertly observed natural history studies; and beautiful landscapes of the English Lake District.
 
Exhibition Content
Exhibition themes may include:
• Beatrix Potter’s childhood, including photographs and early work
• Artistic and literary beginnings, including work for Christmas cards
• Natural history studies, including fungi and microscopic studies, which influenced her naturalistic approach to illustration
• Letters to children, including the beginnings of her books
• The story of the publication of the Tale of Peter Rabbit
• Her books, including preliminary studies and finished illustrations
• Beatrix Potter’s later life as a conservationist and sheep farmer
 
Exhibition Details
The exhibition is available to have a multi venue tour in China from 2009 onwards

All Beatrix Potter drawings and letters © F. Warne & Co. 2006. Frederick Warne & Co. is the owner of all rights, copyrights & trademarks in the Beatrix Potter character names and illustrations. 
 
Contact Ms Elizabeth Capon at touringexhibitions@vam.ac.uk