Louis Wain Fact #55:
The first drawing Wain ever had published appeared in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of 10 December 1881. It was a picture of bullfinches perched atop laurel bushes. Through a printer’s error, it was accidently titled Robins Breakfast, causing Wain to be “severely chaffed in consequence.”
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"This dance began at two o'clock, and now it's half past four
The piper says he's weary but the Dancers ask for more!"
Watercolour and bodycolour 14 3/4 x 10 3/4
Illustrated 'Cats of many lands', published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.
Exhibited: The Brook St. Art Gallery as 'In the Heilons'