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Mr Fox looks out of his hole
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Quentin Blake (b. 1932)
Mr Fox looks out of his hole
‘In the wood there was a huge tree. Under the tree there was a hole. In the hole lived Mr Fox and Mrs Fox and their four Small Foxes’. Here, Mr Fox sniffs the night air, preparing for one of his nightly raiding missions to the farms owned by the beastly Boggis, Bunce and Bean (‘One fat, one short, one lean / Those horrible crooks / So different in looks / Are nonetheless equally mean').
Alternative Version for page 12 of the 1996 edition of Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl.
Pen, ink, watercolour, watercolour paper, signed.
275 x 240mm
Mr Fox looks out of his hole
‘In the wood there was a huge tree. Under the tree there was a hole. In the hole lived Mr Fox and Mrs Fox and their four Small Foxes’. Here, Mr Fox sniffs the night air, preparing for one of his nightly raiding missions to the farms owned by the beastly Boggis, Bunce and Bean (‘One fat, one short, one lean / Those horrible crooks / So different in looks / Are nonetheless equally mean').
Alternative Version for page 12 of the 1996 edition of Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl.
Pen, ink, watercolour, watercolour paper, signed.
275 x 240mm
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