Lot Essay
Original illustrations for K.Grahame The Golden Age, London, 1928, pp.66 and 59.
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"Climbed deftly down the porch like a white rat"
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Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
"Climbed deftly down the porch like a white rat"
signed with initials 'EHS.' (lower right) and inscribed 'Climbed down the porch/Ernest H Shepard/Long Meadow/Longdown/Guildford' (on the reverse)
pencil and 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, "Smoked a half-consumed cigar" by the same hand (2)
"Climbed deftly down the porch like a white rat"
signed with initials 'EHS.' (lower right) and inscribed 'Climbed down the porch/Ernest H Shepard/Long Meadow/Longdown/Guildford' (on the reverse)
pencil and 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, "Smoked a half-consumed cigar" by the same hand (2)
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