| Level | Item |
| Ref No | EGM/3/2 |
| Title | Ink illustration on board: Mole, Portly and Ratty walking through the woods |
| Date | 1931 |
| Extent | 1 mounted illustration |
| Name of Creator | Shepard; E H |
| Description | A signed ink illustration on Whatman drawing board from page 172 of Grahame, K (1931) 'The Wind in the Willows.' London: Methuen. It is annotated for publication, and includes a pencil quotation from Chapter 7 of 'The Wind in the Willows': "Some great animal has been here".
There is an inscription on reverse by E H Shepard:
'Original drawing
Property of Ernest H Shepard
Long Meadow
Longdown
Guildford. Surrey.' |
| Language | English |
| Related Material | EGM/4/57 |
| Physical Description | Portrait orientation.
Overthrow window mount cut from 100% cotton museum board in Silver-Grey, hinged at the long edge with linen tape with rounded corners.
A ‘well’ was made for the artwork within museum board to accommodate the thickness of the drawing boards within the overthrow mount.
The artwork was positioned within the mount and hinged to the backboards using Japanese paper T-hinges. |
| Copyright | Digital copying and photography is not permitted |
| Format | Artwork |
| Exhibitions | Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris: "Les drôles de petites bêtes d’Antoon Krings" exhibition, 11 April to 8 September 2019. |