To fetch a pail of water (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 A/P lower left, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, a couple of very small spots of foxing in the margin, unframed.

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

Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water;
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after.

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.