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Ernest Howard Shepard
1879-1976
Summer Holidays
20th century
Pen and black ink, over graphite, with corrections in white gouache, on pasteboard.
Full sheet: 10 1/2 x 14 1/16 inches (266 x 357 mm); design area: 7 7/16 x 11 1/2 inches (189 x 292 mm)
Gift of Mr. Frederick R. Koch.
1981.64:3
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Watermark: none.
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Signed at lower left, in pen and black ink, "SUMMER HOLIDAYS"; in graphite, "- or, should the summer prove to be a normal one, face the sterner joys of Spitzbergen".
Provenance:
Sale, London, Christie's, 21 July 1981, part of lot 246; Frederick R. Koch.
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