Quentin Blake (b. 1932)
Wild Washerwomen driving recklessly
‘Look out, the wild washerwomen are coming!’: Alternative artwork for a tale by Jonathan Yeoman. All seven of the overworked Wild Washerwomen – on strike from the laundry – are shown careening along in their cart as the laundry’s owner, the dreadful Mr Balthazar Tight, looks on.
Alternative artwork for the 1979 edition of The Wild Washerwomen: A new folk tale by John Yeoman, for which Quentin Blake was a ‘Highly Commended’ runner-up for the Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association.
Pen, ink, watercolour, watercolour paper, signed.
330 x 290mm
Quentin Blake (b. 1932)
Wild Washerwomen driving recklessly
‘Look out, the wild washerwomen are coming!’: Alternative artwork for a tale by Jonathan Yeoman. All seven of the overworked Wild Washerwomen – on strike from the laundry – are shown careening along in their cart as the laundry’s owner, the dreadful Mr Balthazar Tight, looks on.
Alternative artwork for the 1979 edition of The Wild Washerwomen: A new folk tale by John Yeoman, for which Quentin Blake was a ‘Highly Commended’ runner-up for the Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association.
Pen, ink, watercolour, watercolour paper, signed.
330 x 290mm
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