Racing the Cabs

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ERNEST HOWARD SHEPARD (BRITISH, 1879-1976)
Racing the Cabs
signed with initials 'EHS.' (lower right), inscribed '"Racing the Cabs"' (lower centre) and further inscribed and numbered '2 / Drawing / No III [partly erased] / (Drawn from Memory)' (lower left, overmounted) and further signed and inscribed 'Return to / E.H.Shepard / Woodmancote / Lodsworth / Sussex' (on the reverse)
pencil, pen and black ink and black crayon on artist's board
7 ½ x 9 7⁄8 in. (19 x 25.1 cm.)

来源

with Wakefield - Young Books, New York, December 1969, where purchased by The Carpenter Family, Minnesota, and then by descent in the family.

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This energetic illustration features in chapter 10 of Shepard's memoir Drawn from Memory,1957, p.178. It depicts the artist as a young boy riding his beloved tricycle, Septimus (see lot 169 for another drawing of this subject), engaging in a race with a horse-drawn cab - a favourite past-time of his whilst at home from school on a Saturday morning.

Racing the Cabs

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