"King John Put up a notice, 'LOST or STOLEN or STRAYED! JAMES JAMES MORRISON'S MOTHER SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN MISLAID."
Details
Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
"King John
Put up a notice,
'LOST or STOLEN or STRAYED!
JAMES JAMES
MORRISON'S MOTHER
SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN MISLAID."
signed with initials: "EHS"
pencil, pen and black ink and heightened with white, unframed
4¾ x 4¾in. (12 x 12cm.)
"King John
Put up a notice,
'LOST or STOLEN or STRAYED!
JAMES JAMES
MORRISON'S MOTHER
SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN MISLAID."
signed with initials: "EHS"
pencil, pen and black ink and heightened with white, unframed
4¾ x 4¾in. (12 x 12cm.)
Provenance
Presented to the family by Ernest Howard Shepard and thence by descent
Literature
An original illustration for "Disobedience" published in When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1924, P. 31