The tale of Beatrix Potter and Mr McIntosh

Here, among a tableau of Perthshire flora and fauna, Potter’s still lifes are shown in the galleries of the former City Hall, refurbished out of its municipal past into a more welcoming design language of pale wood and natural light. [...]to understand why they belong in the same museum collection a...

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Published inFT.com
Main Author Whittle, Natalie
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London The Financial Times Limited 27.04.2024
Subjects
Fatalities
Fungi
Mushrooms
Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943)
Summer
United Kingdom > UK
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Summary:Here, among a tableau of Perthshire flora and fauna, Potter’s still lifes are shown in the galleries of the former City Hall, refurbished out of its municipal past into a more welcoming design language of pale wood and natural light. [...]to understand why they belong in the same museum collection as the Scottish king- and queen-anointing Stone of Destiny, we must rewind more than a hundred years to the summers of Potter’s youth, many of which she spent in Highland Perthshire. Every difference of their circumstance, including his much greater age and knowledge of the natural world, did not alter the social power she seemed to command, even if benignly. A photograph taken in winter, towards the end of his life, shows McIntosh resting on a rowing boat on the frozen river Tay, gazing at his small black dog.