Lot Essay
Original illustrations for K.Grahame The Golden Age, London, 1928, pp.148, 163, 146, 154 and 124.
"Set of tea-things in the toy-shop window" and "Lusisti satis"
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Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
"Set of tea-things in the toy-shop window" and "Lusisti satis"
inscribed 'The toy shop window/Ernest H Shepard/Long Meadow/Longdown/Guildford' (on the reverse)
pencil and pen and black ink heightened with white, unframed
14½ x 10½in. (36.9 x 26.6cm.)
and two unframed pen and ink illustrations, "The murder re-enacted" and "Dispensed hospitality to a glassy-eyed circle" and "The room was very still as I approached the bureau" by the same hand (3)
"Set of tea-things in the toy-shop window" and "Lusisti satis"
inscribed 'The toy shop window/Ernest H Shepard/Long Meadow/Longdown/Guildford' (on the reverse)
pencil and pen and black ink heightened with white, unframed
14½ x 10½in. (36.9 x 26.6cm.)
and two unframed pen and ink illustrations, "The murder re-enacted" and "Dispensed hospitality to a glassy-eyed circle" and "The room was very still as I approached the bureau" by the same hand (3)
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