SHEPARD (E.H.) A fine large oval pencil drawing of Winnie-the-Pooh (reaching his hand into a honey p
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SHEPARD (E.H.)
A fine large oval pencil drawing of Winnie-the-Pooh (reaching his hand into a honey pot), Tigger, and Piglet seated at a kitchen table, mounted, framed and glazed, image 200 x 180mm.
Sold for £31,200 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • This image is an enlarged and expanded version of the illustration "Tiggers don't like honey" used in "The House at Pooh Corner".

    Provenance of this and the following lots: by descent from the family of E.V. Knox and Mary Shepard, daughter of E.H. Shepard. E.V. Knox (1881-1971) had a long association with Punch contributing articles from 1905 onwards and eventually becoming editor in 1932. In 1937 he married Mary Shepard, best known for her illustrations to P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins.

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