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Drawings and Water Colours / WD51

The Phoca

Artist/Maker: Browne, Hablot Knight [1815-1882]



1840-1880
Watercolour on white wove paper

258 x 361 mm.
Bequest: George Powell 1882

The Phooka is a mythical harmless Irish kobold who appears in a great diversity of animal shapes, most commonly a dog or horse. As an apparently tame horse, the Phooka offers careless travellers a ride who are then sent on a wild journey ending up thrown into a ditch or mudpool



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