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The little piggy-wig

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Charles Henry Bennett
1829-1867

The little piggy-wig

[London : s.n., 1864?]
wood engraving
image: 87 x 111 mm; sheet: 121 x 163 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1289
Notes
Title from publication.
Proof of a wood engraving on India paper after an illustration by Charles Bennett for D'Arcy W. Thompson's Nursery nonsense, or, Rhymes without reason. London : Griffith and Farran, 1864, p. 3.
Illustrates the lines: A little piggy-wig once went to court, to see the King and Queen: but they said, "Little Pig, you can't come in until your face is clean." So they wheel'd him away in a wheel-barrow to the middle of the Market-place, and they pump'd and pump'd, till there was'nt a speck of dirt upon his face. ....
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints