ERNEST HOWARD SHEPARD (1879-1976), BRITISH
HE AND I FELL TO THE FURNISHING OF MY WEE CLOSETT (ILLUSTRATION FOR BOSWELL'S "LONDON JOURNAL")

Pen and ink drawing on Newman's Artist Drawing Tablet, Whatman Hot Pressed, Special, London paperboard; signed "E.H. Shepard" lower left, titled with a caption in pencil to margin under the drawing.

Image 12.2 ins x 10.4 ins; 31 cms x 26.5 cms; Sheet 14.3 ins x 10.5 ins; 36.2 cms x 26.7 cms

Provenance:
Gifted from the artist to the present Private Collection, Ontario in the 1970s

Note:
This illustration was used for a later edition of Boswell's "London Journal."

In the 1970s, while performing an Insurance appraisal of E.H. Shepard's library collection in his house in Sussex, UK, the artist gave this drawing as an appropriate gift to the consignor.

Estimate: $1,000—1,500