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Beatrix Potter, ‘Studies of nine beetles’ © Frederick Warne & Co. 2006 Beauty in the detail At the age of eight Beatrix Potter was already studying and recording the characteristics of a wide variety of animals, birds and insects in a home-made sketchbook. This habit of spending time observing the form and structure of living things continued throughout her childhood and into adolescence. She was particularly drawn to the delicate and complex form of insects, becoming a keen amateur entomologist.
Potter made frequent visits to the Natural History Museum (less than a mile from her home in Bolton Gardens) to study and sketch the insect collection; at home, she learned to prepare slides of specimens to view with her brother's microscope. All this painstaking work paid off: Potter developed the eye of an expert investigative scientist, able to draw living creatures with great conviction - throughout her life her work was guided by the principle of portraying nature as accurately as possible.