Lot Essay
A preliminary drawing for a wartime Punch cartoon. The final version was published on 31 May 1944.
The Awakening
Details
Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
The Awakening
signed with initals 'EHS'
pencil, unframed
8 x 5in. (20 x 13cm.)
The Awakening
signed with initals 'EHS'
pencil, unframed
8 x 5in. (20 x 13cm.)
Literature
A similar version together with the published Punch wartime cartoon is reproduced in Rawle Knox's The Work of EH Shepard, published by Methuen Children's Books Ltd, London, 1979, P.206 and 207