Calvin's "Peter Rabbit" Parker

[Dean Romig]

Amazing similarity in the two rabbits executed by two different artists. Did one inspire the other?

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is first published in 1906 but Beatrix was an accomplished artist long before that. She sold many of her paintings of animals and flowers and such in 1890 so who knows when the paintings of her "Peter Rabbit" first came on the scene in England and abroad. Peter Rabbit wallpaper was first commercially sold in 1905, a year before the book was published.

Calvin, I thought I had a picture of the rabbit engraved in the underside of your Parker but I can't seem to find it. Will you post a picture in this thread for comparison? What year was your "Peter Rabbit" Parker made?



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