Wee Willie Winkie (Original)
Medium: Gouache on Card
Size: 9" x 13" (230mm x 340mm)
Date: c. 1970
Code: QuintoWWW
This is the unique original Gouache painting by Nadir Quinto.
Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toon,
Up stairs an' doon stairs in his nicht-gown,
Tirlin' at the window, crying at the lock,
"Are the weans in their bed, for it's now ten o'clock?"
First verse of the famous Scots nursery rhyme.
Artwork probably originally published in either Jack and Jill or Playhour.
- Artist BiographyNadir Quinto (1918 - 1994; Milan, Italy)
Nadir Quinto's contributions to the Thriller Picture Library were strips featuring the adventures of Robin Hood. Nadir Quinto was born in Milan and attended the Accademia di Brera and, immediately after the War, began contributing picture strips to most of the top Italian comic journals such as Dinamite, Albi di Salgari, Festival and L'Intrepido. In 1946 he began drawing and lettering strips for Corrieri dei Piccoli. After his brief time drawing Robin Hood strips for the TPL, he left comics to concentrate on illustration, only to return to drawing strips for the Italian comic journals in the 1970s.
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