Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
‘Good morning, Christopher Robin, he said’ [1928]
170 x 220mm, ink drawing, signed lower right corner (‘EH Shepard’), captioned in pencil (partially erased) below image ‘Good morning, Christopher Robin, he said. Are we alone?’, evidence of some pencil under-drawing.

This original illustration is reproduced on p.157 of The House at Pooh Corner (Methuen, 1928). It appears in Chapter 9 (‘In Which Eeyore Finds the Wolery and Owl Moves Into It’).

Provenance: Richard Gimbel (1898-170) – Sotheby's New York, 18 June 1987, lot 126 [sold with, previously pasted to the front free endpaper of:]

A.A. Milne (1882-1956). The House at Pooh Corner. Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co, Ltd, [1928]. Limited edition in the dust-jacket, this being no. 158 of 350 copies signed by both the author and the illustrator. Small quarto (222 x 176mm). Illustrations by E.H. Shepard throughout (front free endpaper soiled with remnants of adhesive). Original quarter cloth, printed paper label on upper board; printed dust-jacket (mild soiling, torn along upper joint, light wear to small blank area of upper wrapper as a result of adhesion).