| Description | Pencil sketches of [from top to bottom]: two figures [one probably a girl, the other a boy] looking down and digging under a bush; a variety of toys [a doll, a cow, a jointed puppet, an elephant, a beetle, and a horse on wheels] these toys reappear in the top image of EHS/G/9/11 and in EHS/G/9/12; a boy looking into a large chest resembling a toybox; and scene showing a setting sun, a ship [Noah's Ark?], and an elephant with its trunk raised. "A Departure" appears top left, "Tailpiece" bottom, the annotations "Jane" and "Dressing gown" to either side of the top image in pencil in Shepard's handwriting. "A Departure" is one of the stories in the children's book DREAM DAYS, by Kenneth Grahame, but it is unclear if this image was published. |