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Lot 135
Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
Mole Asleep
Closed
3 July 1998
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GBP 2,760
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Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
Mole Asleep
signed with initials 'EHS'
pencil
4½ x 5¾in. (11.4 x 14.6cm.)
Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
Mole Asleep
signed with initials 'EHS'
pencil
4½ x 5¾in. (11.4 x 14.6cm.)
Provenance
Estate of the Artist
Literature
An original sketch for
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame, 1931 edition
Exhibited
London, Sally Hunter Fine Art Limited,
E.H. Shepard: The Wind in the Willows
, December 1992, no. 21
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