"When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition."
细节
Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
"When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition."
signed with initials 'EHS' and inscribed on the reverse 'Arming for the battle' in the artist's hand and further inscribed
pencil, pen and black ink
4½ x 7/1/2in. (11.5 x 9cm.)
"When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition."
signed with initials 'EHS' and inscribed on the reverse 'Arming for the battle' in the artist's hand and further inscribed
pencil, pen and black ink
4½ x 7/1/2in. (11.5 x 9cm.)
出版
An original illustration for "The Return of Ulysses" published in The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1931, Chapter XII, P. 296.
展览
London, Foyles Art Gallery, Ernest Howard Shepard: An Exhibition of Watercolours and Book Illustrations, 1958, no.49. Sold for 6 guineas.