10: ERNEST HOWARD SHEPARD
For a biography of Ernest Howard Shepard, please refer to The Illustrators, 2007, page 199; for essays on various aspects of the artist’s achievement, see The Illustrators, 1999, pages 151-152; The Illustrators, 2000, pages 28-32; and The Illustrators, 2007, pages 199-200.
Nos 196-197 are illustrated in Laurence Housman, The Golden Sovereign, London: Jonathan Cape, 1937
Key works illustrated: contributed to Punch from 1907, becoming second cartoonist in 1935, and chief cartoonist from 1945 until 1949; A A Milne, When We Were Very Young (1924); E V Lucas, Playtime and Company (1925); A A Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh (1926); Everybody’s Pepys (1926); The House at Pooh Corner (1928); Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (1931); Richard Jeffries, Bevis (1932); E V Lucas, As the Bee Sucks (1937) His work is represented in the collections of the V&A; and the Shepard Archive at the University of Surrey (Guildford). Further reading: Arthur R Chandler, The Story of E H Shepard: the man who drew Pooh, West Sussex: Jaydem, 2001; Rawle Knox (ed), The Work of E H Shepard, London: Methuen, 1979; C A Parker (rev), ‘Shepard, Ernest Howard (1879-1976)’, H C G Matthew and Brian Harrison (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, vol 50, pages 230-231
196 STAR FROM THE EAST LION AND UNION JACK FLAG
inscribed with title below mount pen and ink, 2 1⁄2 x 3 inches Illustrated: page 374
167
197 THE KING MAKER PARNELL AND KATHERINE O’SHEA signed pen and ink with bodycolour, 9 3⁄4 x 7 1⁄4 inches Illustrated: page 98