`The Little Dog laughed to see such Sport'
`The Little Dog laughed to see such Sport'
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Edward Lear (1812-1888)
`The Little Dog laughed to see such Sport'
Pen and brown ink on laid paper watermarked with Britannia
16.2 by 20.3 cm., 6 1/4 by 8 in.
Provenance:
With Gooden and Fox, London (pre-1973);
Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999)
Hey, diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.