Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)

細節
Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
The Search for Small
both signed with initials, one signed on the reverse, pencil, pen and black ink heightened with white
3½ x 3in. and 4 x 5½in.
(two in common mount)
出版
A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928

拍品專文

"... the Search for Small was still going on all over the Forest. Small's real name was Very Small Beetle, but he was called Small for short, when he was spoken to at all, which hardly ever happened except when somebody said: "Really, Small!" He had been staying with Christopher Robin for a few seconds, and he had started going round a gorse-bush for exercise, but instead of coming back the other way, as expected, he hadn't, so nobody knew where he was." Ch.3, p.45

""Pooh!" he cried.
"There's something climbing up your back."
"I thought there was," said Pooh.
"It's Small!" cried Piglet." Ch.3, pp.50 & 51