Ding dong dell (circa 1975)

Etching and aquatint, 50.5 x 39.5 cm (plate line); 69.5 x 59.5 cm (sheet), titled in pencil lower centre, editioned 14/20 lower left, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, a couple of small spots of foxing in the margin, unframed.

A fine large format Blackman etching illustrating the traditional English nursery rhyme.

Ding dong dell,
Pussy’s in the well.
Who put her in?
Little Johnny Green.
Who pulled her out?
Little Tommy Stout.
What a naughty boy was that,
To try to drown poor pussy cat,
Who never did him any harm,
But killed the mice in his farmer’s barn.

Provenance:

The estate of the late Barbara Blackman (1928 – 2024)

The estate of the late Felicity St. John Moore (1933 – 2025), art historian, curator and authority on the celebrated Australian artist Charles Blackman (1928-2018)

by descent.