Thelwell's Sly Cat Dennis the Menace prints © DC Thomson & Co

© DC Thomson & Co Ltd

He’s also come to be associated with the colour red – the colour of the stripe on his football jersey

I tend to choose material from this era because it was the time I was growing up and my tastes and preferences were being formed

According to Thelwell's obituary in the Telegraph newspaper: “He created some of the most recognisable images in equine art with his cartoons of freckled girls being bounced along on their recalcitrant spherical ponies

Thelwell's Sly Cat Dennis the Menace prints © DC Thomson & CoHandmade screen print on cotton paper. Signed and numbered out of 200 in pencil by the printer, John Patrick Reynolds. Standard size: 26cm x 19cm Medium size: 48cm x 38cm Large size: 76cm x 56cm Norman Thelwell is the unofficial chronicler of the British countryside. He is especially well known and loved for his drawings of little girls on pony back. Thelwell has also become closely associated with the Pony Club, the organization devoted to educating