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Eight Fook Images

Item date(s): n.d.

Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982)


Pages: 2pp
Size: 100 x 285mm / 100 x 277mm
Technique: Watercolour and ink
Edition: Unique


Place publication: Pretoria, RSA
Publisher: The artist

Exhibition notes:
Previously: CMD 2248.

1.1 The Great Pyramid of KOO-FOOK. Royal ancestor of the FOOKIANS.

1.2 A Cosmic Sun much bigger than our own Sun.

1.3 Halley's Comet stretched across the sky in 1910.

1.4 Mrs Margaret Oliphant. A big figure in Victorian Literature

[Margaret Oliphant was a prolific writer who over the span of some 50 years authored more than 100 novels, numerous travel books, histories, and biographies, over 50 short stories, and at least 400 periodical essays.]

2.1 I'm jumbo. The Big African Elephant who never forgets!

2.2 A small section of the gian planet FOOKITER far beyond our ken.

2.3 Coco-de-Mer. The largest coconut.

2.4 Prehistoric Pilthdown Man (sic). The biggest hoax.



Ref: GB/30611







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