SHEPARD | "A Very Grand Thing - The Trouble at Owl's House", ink and watercolour

SHEPARD, E.H.

"A Very Grand Thing - The Trouble at Owl's House"

double illustration 190 by 200mm. and 95 by 200mm., fine pencil, ink and watercolour drawings, second illustration signed with initials lower left "E.H.S.", signed on reverse of board with address and agent's address, additionally signed on frame backing with address and title, mounted, framed and glazed 

THIS ILLUSTRATION HAS NOT BEEN OFFERED FOR SALE FOR OVER FIVE DECADES.

An illustration for chapter 8 of The House at Pooh Corner. Below the mount, Shepard has titled the second illustration "'Up we go' said Pooh". It is assumed that Shepard over-painted Owl's original notice "PLEZ CNOKE IF AN RNSR IS NOT REQID" in the first illustration with the Italian instruction "SI PLEGA [sic] DI PICCHIARE SE NON SI VUOL ME RISPONTA [sic]".

The preliminary pencil drawing for this finished drawing is in the collection of the V&A Museum and reproduced within Brian Sibley's The Pooh Sketchbook (London, 1982). Sibley notes "this drawing appears to have been made... for a later coloured picture (possibly for The World of Pooh) which was not used. The tree is based on that which Christopher Robin climbs during the search for Small..."

This piece was sold by Shepard at an exhibition of his work held in Haslemere between 29 May and 12 June 1965. It has not been seen since in public.

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E.H. Shepard Exhibition, Haslemere, 1965

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