Michael Brian Davis 'FFOLKES' (1925-1988)

The Armadillo

Details

Michael Brian Davis 'FFOLKES' (1925-1988)
The Armadillo
inscribed as title
pen and ink and wash
11 x 12½in. (28 x 31.7cm.)
and eleven other illustrations for The Songs of Michael Flanders & Donald Swann, including: the sloth; the warthog; the gnu; the whale (Mopy Dick); the spider; the wild boar; the elephant; the hippopotamus; the rhinoceros; the ostrich; and the wompon by the same artist
see illustration (12)

Literature

The Songs of Michael Flanders and Donald Swann published by Elm Tree Books, London 1977.

Lot Essay

The book contains forty-one songs in total and was illustrated by various artists and cartoonists, including Heath Robinson, Osbert Lancaster, Scarfe and others. The illustrations offered here by ffolkes were a specially commissioned set of twelve for animal songs.

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