Blackbirds Gallery

Sing a Song of Sixpence - Victorian nursery rhyme illustration

?Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye - Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie - When the pie was open'd the birds began to sing - Was that not a dainty dish to set before the King? - The King was in his counting house counting out his money - The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey - The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes - When up jumped a dickey bird and snapt off her nose.? The rhyme explains it all!
From ?Nursery Rhymes - Ridicula Rediviva? illustrated by J.E. Rogers, with chromolith printing by R. Clay Sons & Taylor and published in London in 1876 by Macmillan and Co

Sing a Song of Sixpence - nursery rhyme

A Victorian engraving of a scene from the nursery rhyme a??Sing a Song of Sixpencea??, showing the four-and-twenty blackbirds singing to the King upon the opening of the pie. He and the Queen appear slightly surprised while the woman to his left looks aghast. From a??The Childa??s Own Magazinea??, published in London by The Sunday School Union in 1892 with illustrations by various artists

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Illustration of woodland birds including Pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) and Blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) and Red-breasted blackbird (Sturnella militaris) in flight

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