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Hector McDonnell RUA (b.1947)A set of eleven drawings relating to The Ballad of William BloatMixed media, each 24.5 X 15.5 cm (9.75 X 6.75) Signed and dated (19)'82. (11)These drawings are the preliminary sketches done by Hector McDonnell which he worked up into a set of etchings which were used to illustrate a book: “The Ballad of William Bloat which accompanies this lot and was published by Blackstaff Press in 1982. The Ballad of William Bloat was written by Raymond Calvert from Helen's Bay in 1926 but many corrupt versions have since been recited. Hector McDonnell first heard it recited in 1970 and he stated I had for a long time been wanting to produce some work which would express my feelings about Belfast, and I decided illustrating this bawdy parody was by far the most effective way of doing so.