"Mole lay stretched on the bank, still panting from the stress of the fierce day that had been cloudless from dawn to late sunset, and waited for his friend to return."
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Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
"Mole lay stretched on the bank, still panting from the stress of the fierce day that had been cloudless from dawn to late sunset, and waited for his friend to return."
signed with initials: "EHS"
pencil, pen and black ink, with scratching out
4½ x 6½in. (11.5 x 16.5cm.)
"Mole lay stretched on the bank, still panting from the stress of the fierce day that had been cloudless from dawn to late sunset, and waited for his friend to return."
signed with initials: "EHS"
pencil, pen and black ink, with scratching out
4½ x 6½in. (11.5 x 16.5cm.)
Literature
Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 7 "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", published by Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1931, P. 151.