Hygrocybe laeta

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An artwork created by Beatrix Potter showing a Hygrocybe laeta fungus which she collected at Holehird, Windermere, Cumbria. The cap for these fungi are about one inch across and tend to be slimy and tawny found among grass and moss.

The Armitt: Museum, Gallery, Library

Ambleside

Title

Hygrocybe laeta

Date

1895

Medium

watercolour & pencil

Measurements

H 21.4 x W 28 cm

Accession number

AMATL: 1958.599

Acquisition method

bequeathed, 1943

Work type

Watercolour

Signature/marks description

Beatrix Potter

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