SHEPARD, Ernest H.

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Original artwork for The House at Pooh Corner: "'Good Morning, Christopher Robin', he said... 'Are we alone?'" An original illustration from chapter nine of The House at Pooh Corner ("In Which Eeyore finds the Wolery and Owl Moves Into It") and published on page 157 of the 1928 Methuen edition.The drawing illustrates the moment that Eeyore joins the search to find a new house for Owl. Ignoring the presence of everyone except Christopher Robin, Eeyore sits down on Owl's newly created name sign and asks "Are we alone?". The revelation is soon to come that Eeyore has found a new home for Owl, although it happens to belong to Piglet.Shepard sold his original drawings for The House at Pooh Corner at an exhibition held at the Sporting Gallery, Covent Garden, in December 1928. A review of the exhibition in The Times noted that "In the illustrations to Mr A. A. Milne's stories Mr Shepard shows a remarkable aptitude in giving a human expression to animals, and his... animals are, if possible, even more expressive than the children which accompany them".

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