Shepard, Ernest H (1879 - 1976)
Shepard worked first as a painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1901. His cartoons began to appear in Punch in 1907 and he worked for the magazine until 1954, joining the Punch Table in 1921. Despite being a political cartoonist for the majority of his career, Shepard gained greatest fame as a book illustrator, most notably for ‘When We Were Very Young’ and the subsequent ‘Pooh’ volumes, written by A.A. Milne, also a Punch contributor. Fougasse described Shepard as ‘one of the great line draughtsmen’ and Price, Punch’s biographer, felt Shepard’s contributions tended to make the rest of the magazine’s illustrations look ‘static’.
Cartoons for sale:
- The Cheerful Pessimists: "This is nothing. You wait till next year."
21st Jan. 1947 - £1375
- 23cm x 28cm
- Punch
Shinwell, Dalton cartoon.
- Striking in the West
14th March 1944 - £1375
- 24cm x 32cm
- Punch
War-time Miners Strike cartoon.
- Waiting their hour
16th Dec. 1942 - £1750
- 26cm x 33cm
- Punch
In 1939, the Canadian Army landed in Britain.
- Russians
18th April 1956 - £275
- 8cm x 13cm
- Punch
Krushchev and Bulganin Eton Boating Song cartoon.
- No Title, 1948
- £1500
- 60cm x 20cm
- mural
This original drawing was a design for a theatrical backdrop by Ernest Shepard. It is signed by the artist.
- No Caption, 1937
- £345
- 14cm x 16cm
- Book Illustration
- From Perfume From Provence, 1935
- £265
- 14cm x 21cm
- Book Illustration
- From PERFUME FROM PROVENCE, 1935
- £285
- 18cm x 20cm
- Book Illustration
- From PERFUME FROM PROVENCE page 5, 1935
- £285
- 22cm x 19cm
- Book Illustration
- No Caption, 1948
- £365
- 18cm x 17cm
- Book Illustration
- No Caption, 1946
- £375
- 20cm x 26cm
- Book Illustration
