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| Antique print - Wonderful Farmer's Boy Feeding the Pigs 1889 Randolph Caldecott Beautiful illustration by the famous British illustrator Randolph Caldecott. Full of humour and character, his work greatly influenced illustration of children's books during the nineteenth century. "Caldecott was a fine literary artist, who was able to express himself with rare facility in pictures in place of words, so that his comments upon a simple text reveal endless subtleties of thought…. You have but to turn to any of his toy-books to see that at times each word, almost each syllable, inspired its own picture…. He studied his subject as no one else ever studied it…. Then he portrayed it simply and with inimitable vigor, with a fine economy of line and colour; when colour is added, it is mainly as a gay convention, and not closely imitative of nature." (Gleeson White). Quality colour printing by the celebrated Edmund EvansAn exceptionally beautiful illustration of the farmer's boy, a pail suspended on his shoulders by a yoke, feeding the pigs. Such beautiful pigs - one black - really lovely with beautiful colouring from Edmund Evans This print would be lovely for a child's nursery |
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