Lot Essay
Original illustrations for K.Grahame Dream Days, London, 1930, pp.149 and 106.
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"But I lingered a moment in the still, frosty air"
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Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
"But I lingered a moment in the still, frosty air"
inscribed '"But I lingered a moment/in the still frosty air"/DREAM DAYS/E.H.Shepard/Long Meadow/Longdown/Guildford' (on the reverse)
pen and black ink heightened with white, unframed
14½ x 10½in. (36.9 x 26.6cm.)
and an unframed pen and ink illustration "The Lord Mayor was waiting there to receive us" by the same hand (2)
"But I lingered a moment in the still, frosty air"
inscribed '"But I lingered a moment/in the still frosty air"/DREAM DAYS/E.H.Shepard/Long Meadow/Longdown/Guildford' (on the reverse)
pen and black ink heightened with white, unframed
14½ x 10½in. (36.9 x 26.6cm.)
and an unframed pen and ink illustration "The Lord Mayor was waiting there to receive us" by the same hand (2)
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