"Owl" Vintage Illustration Poster

Illustration taken from "Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes: a collection of alphabets, rhymes, tales and jingles." published in 1877 by George Routledge and Sons of the Broadway, Ludgate, London and in New York. The book has illustrations by Walter Crane (1845-1915), William McConnell (1833-1867), Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914)), Harrison Weir (1824-1906), Johann Baptist Zwecker ( 1814-1874 ) and others. "There was an Owl lived in an oak. Whiskey, whaskey, weedle! And all the words he ever spoke, Were fiddle, faddle, feedle! A Gunner chanced to come that road, Whiskey, whaskey, weedle! Says he, "I'll shoot you, Silly Bird! So fiddle, faddle, feedle!"