Lot Essay
Original illustrations for K.Grahame Dream Days, London, 1930, pp.77, 91 and 67.
"She had managed to get up into that crow's-nest"
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Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
"She had managed to get up into that crow's-nest"
signed 'EHS' (lower centre), inscribed '"She had managed ... to get/up into that crow's-nest"/Ernest H.Shepard/Long Meadow/Longdown/Guildford' (on the reverse)
pen and black ink, heightened with white, unframed
10½ x 7 1/8in. (26.6 x 18.1cm.)
and two unframed pen and ink illustrations, "To the dull eye it might have appeared unromantic and unraftlike" and "I in my sunday knickerbockers, she in her pink and spangles" by the same hand (3)
"She had managed to get up into that crow's-nest"
signed 'EHS' (lower centre), inscribed '"She had managed ... to get/up into that crow's-nest"/Ernest H.Shepard/Long Meadow/Longdown/Guildford' (on the reverse)
pen and black ink, heightened with white, unframed
10½ x 7 1/8in. (26.6 x 18.1cm.)
and two unframed pen and ink illustrations, "To the dull eye it might have appeared unromantic and unraftlike" and "I in my sunday knickerbockers, she in her pink and spangles" by the same hand (3)
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