Lot Essay
Original illustrations for K.Grahame The Golden Age, London, 1928, pp.13 and 21.
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"From forth the vestry window projected two small legs"
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Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
"From forth the vestry window projected two small legs"
signed with initials 'EHS' (lower right) and inscribed 'Two small legs/Ernest H.Shepard/Long Meadow/Longdown/Guildford' (on the reverse)
pen and black ink heightened with white, unframed
14 3/8 x 10½in. (36.5 x 26.6cm.)
and an unframed pen and ink illustration, "He displayed on a dirty palm one-two-three-four half crowns" by the same hand (2)
"From forth the vestry window projected two small legs"
signed with initials 'EHS' (lower right) and inscribed 'Two small legs/Ernest H.Shepard/Long Meadow/Longdown/Guildford' (on the reverse)
pen and black ink heightened with white, unframed
14 3/8 x 10½in. (36.5 x 26.6cm.)
and an unframed pen and ink illustration, "He displayed on a dirty palm one-two-three-four half crowns" by the same hand (2)
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