The House That Jack Built, Page 6.

Category

Library Item

Item no

40100

Title

The House that Jack Built, page 6.

Description

Two line drawings are depicted on this page. The first shows the rat coming up through the floorboards, spying the malt. The other, is a closer, more detailed illustration of the rat, his feet on a bit of paper that reads, "4 Measures of Malt." The accompanying text reads,
"This is the Malt,
That lay in the House that
Jack built."
"This is the Rat,
That ate the Malt,
That lay in the House
that Jack built."

Artist / maker

Caldecott, Randolph

Date

1878

Size

23.0 x 20.3 cm

Type

Publisher's print

Location

Art and Design Library

An illustrated page from 'The House that Jack Built', a toy-book created for the nursery by Randolph Caldecott originally published in 1878. Caldecott is predominately known for his book illustrations and is widely considered to have transformed the nature of children's books in the nineteenth century. This story, 'The House That Jack Built', was part of a two book series, known as the 'Picture Books’, that were published every Christmas for eight years. His illustrations were exercised with a manner of humour and full of life, reflecting his own personality. Stylistically, 'The House that Jack Built' is written in the form of a cumulative tale. This is when a tale is told by repeating dialogue that builds up to allow the story to progress.

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