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Rupert  took up photography in the 1860s when it was still a relatively new art form and was elected to the  Photographic Society of London in 1869. An enthusiastic and skilled amateur, he later contributed to  photographic exhibitions.  Rupert's favourite subject was Beatrix herself.  Photography was an expensive and  laborious process yet she appears to have endured patiently the elaborate choreography and the camera’s  uncomfortably long exposure. Rupert's prolific legacy of several hundred photographs forms a broad pictorial  account of Beatrix’s life from infancy to marriage.\r\n\r\nPrior to her marriage to William Heelis (1871-1945) in 1913, Beatrix was expected to accompany her parents and brother on extended summer holidays to Scotland and the Lake District.  In 1912 the family rented Broad  Leys, a house near Bowness on Windermere.  Nearly every day Beatrix made the long journey from Bowness  to Hill Top in Sawrey, the farm she had purchased in 1905 with royalties from the sale of her little books: 'I  have kept very well & managed the going backwards & forwards; but it takes it out of me'. (Letter to Millie  Warne, 22nd August 1912.)  Yet, despite an exhausting and rainy summer, Beatrix wrote to her publisher from  Broad Leys with an idea for a new book, 'a story about two disagreeable people, called Tommy Brock & Mr  Tod'. (Letter to Harold Warne, 14th July 1912.)  The Tale of Mr. Tod  was published in October.\r\n\r\nWhen this picture was taken in August 1912, Bertram Potter (1872-1918) had been secretly married to Mary Scott (d.1939), the daughter of a Scottish farmer, for ten years and  Beatrix had been secretly engaged to William Heelis for a couple of months.  Although she had  accepted William Heelis's proposal in June, Beatrix postponed informing her parents until later  in the summer, knowing that once again they would disapprove of her choice of husband.","physicalDescription":"View of a large lake with the tops of trees visible in the foreground and rolling hills and houses on the far side of the lake.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Rupert Potter","id":"A19569"},"association":{"text":"photographer","id":"x43821"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"photographic paper","id":"AAT14190"}],"techniques":[{"text":"albumen process","id":"AAT133274"},{"text":"photography","id":"AAT54225"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Albumen print on paper.","categories":[{"text":"Landscapes","id":"THES250800"},{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"},{"text":"Tourism & Travel","id":"THES250702"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2018LG8320"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES317922"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Broad Leys","id":"x36400"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Windermere","id":"THES253040"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"August 1912","earliest":"1912-08-01","latest":"1912-08-31"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Joan Duke.","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"124","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"166","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'Aug 1912 / Windermere from Broad Leys / R Potter'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Pencil inscription by Rupert Potter on verso."}],"objectHistory":"Photographed by Rupert Potter in August 1912. 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