• Posed for mermaid -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£200


    Presentation: Mounted
    Pencil
    26,5 x 36,5 cm
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    Biography Enquire about this picture£100


    Presentation: Mounted
    Pencil
    26,5 x 36,5 cm
  • The artist's wife resting, seated listening to the wireless, 65, Dorchester Way -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£340


    Presentation: Mounted
    Pen and ink with wash highlights.
    13 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (34.3 x 24 cm.)
    Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.
    Although best known as an illustrator, especially of magazines such as Lilliput, Picture Post and The Studio as well as of children’s books, Sheppard was one of the most gifted painters of wildlife of his generation. He was also an extremely diverse artist, producing semi-abstract and surrealist images alongside those of a purely realistic nature.
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    Biography Enquire about this picture£100


    Presentation: Mounted

  • The artist's wife seated on a stool, hands together, feet crossed circa 1950 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£300


    Presentation: Mounted
    Pen and ink with watercolour.
    12 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (32.5 x 21.5 cm.)
    Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.
  • Study of the artist's wife Iris sleeping, head and shoulders, circa 1950 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£200


    Presentation: Mounted
    Signed Black chalk with white chalk highlights, on grey blue paper.
    6 5/8 x 8 1/8 in. (17 x 20.7 cm.)
    Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.

    Although best known as an illustrator, especially of magazines such as Lilliput, Picture Post and The Studio as well as of children’s books, Sheppard was one of the most gifted painters of wildlife of his generation. He was also an extremely diverse artist, producing semi-abstract and surrealist images alongside those of a purely realistic nature.  His family were his favourite models.
  • Iris posed with angled specs; christine seated -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£180


    Presentation: Mounted
    Pencil, 17 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. (45 x 26 cm).

    Provenance: Christine Sheppard

    ‘Often Dad would sit and sketch us as we were playing, .... When the pressure wason him to complete an illustration for a deadline, we would be asked to pose
    in a particular position so he could capture the exact line of an elbow, turn of
    the head, etc. Not too much talking on those occasions! Other more relaxed
    times there would be conversation, but I can’t remember specifically on which subjects’ (Christine Sheppard, email to Paul Liss, 3 May 2007).
  • RAF Mess, circa 1940 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£300


    Presentation: Mounted
    Pencil
    17 x 23 cm

    Sheppard was stationed at R..A.F Medmanham, Marlow, Bucks, in 1944 and R.A.F Benson in 1945 from where he was sent to Coulommiers in France.
  • RA.F Medmanham, circa 1944 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£390


    Presentation: Mounted
    Signed, pencil
    17 x 22 cm.
    Sheppard was stationed at RA.F Medmanham, Marlow, Bucks, in 1944 and R.A.F Benson in 1945 from where he was sent to Coulommiers in France.  This scene is likely show RA.F Medmanham
  • Sun drenched woods, circa 1955 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£180


    Presentation: Unmounted
    Pencil

    This drawing is likely to be of Stanmore Common where the artist's children, Christine and Michael, often went to play whilst their father sat and sketched. As Christine recalls, "In those days Stanmore Common had quite a rural feel to it." (email to Paul Liss 16th June 2008).

    Although best known as an illustrator, especially of magazines such as Lilliput, Picture Post and The Studio as well as of children’s books, Sheppard was one of the most gifted painters of wildlife of his generation. He was also an extremely diverse artist, producing semi-abstract and surrealist images alongside those of a purely realistic nature.

  • Polar Bear, glancing right -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£600


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Black and white chalk, and pencil on paper. 22 x 22cm (31 x 31cm framed)
  • Chipperfield Common Herts, circa 1950 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£1,000


    Presentation: Mounted
    Watercolour
    25 x 34.5 cm

    Provenance: Christine Sheppard

    Literature: Raymond Sheppard, Capturing the Moment, Langford Press, reproduced in colour, as The Sunday Afternoon Outing,  p. 157


  • A speeding train hurled into another.... -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£300


    Presentation: Framed
    Inscribed with title in pencil
    Pen and ink,
    9 x 8.5 cm.
    During the Second World War Sheppard worked in the Royal Airforce photographic section.

    Provenance: The Artist's Estate
  • Crash in Flames.... -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£300


    Presentation: Framed
    Inscribed with title in pencil
    Pen and ink,
    9 x 8.5 cm.
    During the Second World War Sheppard worked in the Royal Airforce photographic section.

    Provenance: The Artist's Estate
  • High Level Aeriel Photos, late 1940's -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£300


    Presentation: Framed
    Inscribed with title in pencil
    Pen and ink,
    9 x 8.5 cm.
    During the Second World War Sheppard worked in the Royal Airforce photographic section.

    Provenance: The Artist's Estate
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    Biography Enquire about this picture£800


    Presentation: Framed

  • Christine and Ginnie, circa 1950 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£700


    Presentation: Framed
    Pen, ink and wash
    12 x 8 in. (30 x 20cm.)

    This shows Christine, the artist's daughter, aged six . 'I remember posing many, many times for my father. Sometimes we were paid pocket money for sittings, especially when we didn't feel like sitting still! I think we wanted to help our dad and were, mainly, willing. When the pressure was on him to complete an illustration for a deadline, we would be asked to pose in a particular position so he could capture the exact line of an elbow, turn of the head, etc. I felt proud and special when my father showed me a final illustration for a publication that was based on sketches of me. The cat, called Ginnie, lived nearby in Kenton and used to visit our  house almost every day. (Christine Sheppard, emails to Paul Liss, 3 May 2007 and 4 December 2007).
  • The Tarn, France c.1944 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£450


    Presentation: Mounted
    10 x 13 7/8 in. (25.5 x 35.5 cm.)
  • Sheet with two portraits of Christine, one profile one 3/4 view circa 1951 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£600


    Presentation: Mounted
    Black chalk with white chalk highlights on brown paper.
    14 1/8 x 9 1/2 in. (36 x 24.2 cm.)
    Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.
  • Christine lying on her back, her head on a cushion circa 1952 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£350


    Presentation: Mounted
    Pen ink and watercolour.
    9 x 13 3/8 in. (22.8 x 34 cm.)
    Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.
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    Biography Enquire about this picture£10


    Presentation: Unmounted

  • Wessex Saddleback Overy Farm 1944 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£350


    Presentation: Mounted
    Pen and ink and wash with brown ink highlights
    9 7/8 x 13 3/4 in. (25 x 35 cm.)
    Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter
  • Sheet of studies: Barn Owl with fox and cheeky pigs late 1940's -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£200


    Presentation: Mounted
    Inscribed Pencil.
    10 x 13 in. (25.5 x 33 cm.)
    Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.
  • Sunday Evening, (the artist's wife knitting) 12th August 1948 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£250


    Presentation: Mounted
    Inscribed with title and date Pencil.
    13 3/4 x 9 7/8 in. (35 x 25 cm.)
    Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.

    Although best known as an illustrator, especially of magazines such as Lilliput, Picture Post and The Studio as well as of children’s books, Sheppard was one of the most gifted painters of wildlife of his generation. He was also an extremely diverse artist, producing semi-abstract and surrealist images alongside those of a purely realistic nature.  His family were his favourite models
  • Michael lying against an armchair 4th March 1950 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£190


    Presentation: Mounted
    dated Watercolour and pen and ink.
    9 1/2 x 7 in. (24 x 17.8 cm.)
    Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.
  • Composition inspired by deep sea organic form - circa 1950 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£500


    Presentation: Mounted
    Signed
    Pen ink and watercolour with highlights in blue, on light blue paper
    25 x 35 cm
  • St Pauls Under Attack from Zeppelin LZ-38 1915 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£600


    Presentation: Framed
    Extensively inscribed with printing instructions
    Pen and ink on board prepared with gesso
    9-1/2 × 7-7/8 in. (24 × 20 cm)
    Provenance: Christine Sheppard, the artist’s daughter .
    Literature: ‘Warneford,VC’, in Lilliput, March 1957, pp. 20–7.

    This illustration, from 1957, was commissioned by Lilliput, a small-format British monthly magazine of humour , short stories, photographs and the arts, founded in 1937 by the photojournalist Stefan Lorant.The illustration records an important event in the FirstWorldWar , when on 31 May 1915, the LZ-38
    became the first Zeppelin to bomb London: ‘we can still feel a macabre horror over the picture of a pencil-slim object slow-moving in the night-dark, licked by searchlights, seemingly immune to gunfire, slipping incredible death from its belly before gliding unharmed away’ (Lilliput).

    Raymond Sheppard served with the Royal Air Force photographic section
    from 1939–45.

  • Polar Bear -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£950


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    White, black and yellow chalk on paper, 26.5 x 23.5cm (35.5 x 32.5cm framed)
  • Saddle-back Wessex pig -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£200


    Presentation: Mounted

    Pencil 5 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (14 x 24.8 cm.)


  • South Western United States Peublo Navaho and Avache (S|R 55) -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£280


    Presentation: Mounted
    Inscribed in pencil Pen and ink with watercolour.
    8 5/8 x 11 3/16 in. (22 x 28.4 cm.)
    Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.

  • Admiralty Islands New Guinea from the Natural History Museum 1950's (S|R 54) -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£250


    Presentation: Mounted
    Inscribed in pencil Pen and ink with watercolour.
    8 3/4 x 11 in. (22.3 x 28 cm.)
    Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter

  • Ivory Coast masks from the Natural History Museum 1950's (S|R 58) -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£260


    Presentation: Mounted
    Inscribed in pencil Pen and ink with watercolour.
    8 3/8 x 11 3/16 in. (21.3 x 28.5 cm.)
    Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.

  • Michael seated in a rocking chair playing cats cradle circa 1952 (S|R 27) -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£380


    Presentation: Mounted
    Pen and ink and watercolour
    11 3/8 x 9 3/8 in. (29 x 24 cm.)
    Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.

  • The Palm House, Kew Gardens -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£200


    Presentation: Unmounted
    Watercolour and pen and ink
    8 x 11 7/8 in. (20 x 30 cm.)

    The Palm House (built 1844-1848) at Kew Gardens, with its tropical rainforest habitat was a place Sheppard visited to study and draw tropical vegetation as background to bird and other illustrations. In the Background Studies section of his book “More Birds to Draw” he includes a pencil drawing that “was done in the Palm House at Kew Gardens”.

    We are grateful to Christine Sheppard for assistance.
  • Mudford, near Christ Church Dorset circa 1950 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£270


    Presentation: Mounted
    Pencil
    10 x 14 in. (25 x 36 cm)
  • Sleeping Cat, circa 1950 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£220


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Pencil on paper, 5 x 7 in. (12.5 x 18 cm.)
    (7 5/8 x 9 7/8 in. (19.5 x 25 cm.) framed)
  • Portrait of Michael, the artist's son, circa 1950 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£275


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Red pencil on paper, 7 1/2 x 6 1/8 in. (19 x 15.5 cm.)
    (10 5/8 x 9 1/4 in. (27 x 23.5 cm.) framed)
  • Study of a cockrel -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£240


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Red pencil on paper, 6 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. (17 x 23.5 cm.)
    (10 1/4 x 12 3/4 in. (26 x 32.5 cm.) framed)
  • Sleeping Serval -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£200


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Pencil and yellow chalk on paper, 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. (13.5 x 21.5 cm.)
    (8 7/8 x 12 in. (22.5 x 30.5 cm.) framed.


    Although best known as an illustrator, especially of magazines such as Lilliput, Picture Post and The Studio as well as of children’s books, Sheppard was one of the most gifted painters of wildlife of his generation. He was also an extremely diverse artist, producing semi-abstract and surrealist images alongside those of a purely realistic nature. 
  • Serval, circa 1950 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£420


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Pencil and yellow chalk on paper, 6 1/4 x 9 5/8 in. (16 x 24.5 cm.)
    (9 7/8 x 13 1/4 in. (25 x 33.5 cm.) framed)
  • Head of a lion cub -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£150


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Pencil on paper, 3 1/8 x 3 in. (8 x 7.8cm.)
    (6 x 6 in. (15 x 15cm.) framed)
  • Study of lioness -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£200


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Red and black pencil on paper, 5 1/8 x 7 in. (13 x 18cm.)
    (8 x 9 7/8 in. (20 x 25cm.) framed)
  • Three cockerels, circa 1940 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£380


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    White, red and black chalk on blue paper.
    Three pictures (9 5/8 x 16 1/8 in. (24.5 x 41cm.) framed) :
    - left 4 3/4 x 3 in. (12 x 7.5cm.)
    - middle 6 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (16.3 x 13.5cm.)
    - right 6 x 4 1/8 in. (15.2 x 10.5cm.)

  • Cockerels, sheet of studies -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£400


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    White, red and black chalk on blue paper, 7 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (19 x 26cm.)
    (10 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. (27.5 x 35cm.) framed)
  • Russo-Persian cat and St Bernards -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£280


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Pencil on paper, 5 1/4 x 13 in. (13.5 x 33cm.)
    (8 x 15 3/4 in. (20.5 x 40cm.) framed)
  • Sow and head of a blue belton setter circa 1930's -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£90


    Presentation: Mounted
    Pencil with coloured chalk highlights.
    4 3/8 x 3 5/8 in. (11 x 9.5 cm.)

    Provenance: Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.

  • Solent Rd Beach, Southborne; cloud studies 1953 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£180


    Presentation: Mounted
    Inscribed and dated Pencil
    35 x 25
    Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter
  • Holiday huts, Dorset beach -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£320


    Presentation: Mounted
    Watercolour over pen and ink
    7 x 10 in. (18 x 25 cm)
  • Ernastine Martin c. 1956 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£200


    Presentation: Mounted
    Pencil
    15 x 10 in. (38 x 25.5 cm.)

  • Christine seated on a stool, hands clasped, gazing down 1949 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£950


    Presentation: Mounted
    Inscribed "Christine 12.11.49" Pen and ink and wash.
    13 11/16 x 9 5/8 in. (34.7 x 24.5 cm.)

    Provenance: Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.

  • Michael in bed 1953 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£200


    Presentation: Mounted
    Black chalk
    6 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. (16 x 25 cm.)

    Although best known as an illustrator, especially of magazines such as Lilliput, Picture Post and The Studio as well as of children’s books, Sheppard was one of the most gifted painters of wildlife of his generation. He was also an extremely diverse artist, producing semi-abstract and surrealist images alongside those of a purely realistic nature.  His family were his favourite models

  • Christine on all fours posed for an illustration circa 1950 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£290


    Presentation: Mounted
    Watercolour and pen and ink.
    6 x 9 3/8 in. (15 x 24 cm.)

    Provanenance: Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter

  • Christine kneeling, rear view posed for an illustration for an adventure story circa 1950 (S|R 7) -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£200


    Presentation: Mounted
    Pen and ink and wash.
    9 1/2 x 6 5/8 in. (24.2 x 17 cm.)

    Provenance: Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter

  • Christine standing posed for an illustration to a story, circa 1948 (S|R 8) -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£190


    Presentation: Mounted
    Pen ink and brown wash.
    9 1/4 x 6 in. (23.4 x 15 cm.)

    Provenance: Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.

  • Christine, late 1940's -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£200


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Pencil on paper, 20 x 15cm (29 x 24cm framed)
  • Sleeping lioness, circa 1950 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£200


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Pencil on paper, 7 x 12.5cm (14 x 19.5cm framed)

    Although best known as an illustrator, especially of magazines such as Lilliput, Picture Post and The Studio as well as of children’s books, Sheppard was one of the most gifted painters of wildlife of his generation. He was also an extremely diverse artist, producing semi-abstract and surrealist images alongside those of a purely realistic nature.  His family provided  his favourite models.
  • Self Portrait, full length three quarter rear view, sketching, circa 1935 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£600


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Pen and ink, 27.5 x 14.5cm (36.5 x 24.5cm framed)
  • Profile view of Christine seated on a stool, head turned 1948 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£420


    Presentation: Mounted
    Pen and ink and watercolour.
    13 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (34 x 24 cm.)
    Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.
  • Christine posed on a dining room chair c 1951 (S|R 5) -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£450


    Presentation: Mounted
    13 1/8 x 9 7/16 in. (33.3 x 24 cm.)
  • Christine standing in the front room studio 1951 -
    Biography Enquire about this picture£500


    Presentation: Mounted
    Pen and ink and watercolour.
    13 1/8 x 9 7/16 in. (33.4 x 23.9 cm.)
  • Airfield - circa 1940 -
    Biography Enquire about this pictureTo be included in a
    forthcoming exhibition


    Presentation: Unmounted
    Signed
    Pencil
    16.5 x 23 cm
  • Two leopards courting - circa 1950 -
    Biography Enquire about this pictureTo be included in a
    forthcoming exhibition


    Presentation: Unframed
    Pastel on brown paper
    21 x 32 cm

  • Winter in Hendon, early 1940's -
    Biography Sold


    Presentation: Unmounted
    This panel shows the front garden at 10 Sylvan Avenue, Hendon where Sheppard's parents lived before they moved to Christchurch, Dorset.

    Although best known as an illustrator, especially of magazines such as Lilliput, Picture Post and The Studio as well as of children’s books, Sheppard was one of the most gifted painters of wildlife of his generation. He was also an extremely diverse artist, producing semi-abstract and surrealist images alongside those of a purely realistic nature.

  • Top of Barn Hill, Wembley, looking towards Kenton, circa 1955 -
    Biography Sold


    Presentation: Unmounted
    10 x 14 in. (25.5 x 35.5 cm.)
    Watercolour and pen and ink

    This watercolour shows  the pond at the top of Barn Hill, Wembley (then Middlesex, now in borough of Harrow). The Sheppards lived in Kingsbury Green  "a regular walk over the railway line and up the hill where cows grazed and there was a farm. This was post war but before the prolific housing developments, although the fields remain", (Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter, email to Paul Liss 16th June 2008).

    Although best known as an illustrator, especially of magazines such as Lilliput, Picture Post and The Studio as well as of children’s books, Sheppard was one of the most gifted painters of wildlife of his generation. He was also an extremely diverse artist, producing semi-abstract and surrealist images alongside those of a purely realistic nature.

  • Morane Saulnier no. 3253 piloted by Reginald Alexander John Warneford attacking Zeppelin LZ-37, north of Ostend 1915 -
    Biography Sold


    Presentation: Framed
    Pen and ink on board prepared with gesso
    11 × 11 in. (28 × 28 cm)
    Provenance: Christine Sheppard, the artist’s daughter .
    Literature: ‘Warneford,VC’,  in Lilliput, March 1957, pp. 20–7.
  • Reginald Alexander John Warneford and Squadron Commander Spenser Grey attacking Zeppelin LZ-39, east of Dunkirk 1915 -
    Biography Sold


    Presentation: Framed
    Pen and ink on board prepared with gesso
    13-3/4 × 7-7/8 in. (35 × 20 cm)
    Provenance: Christine Sheppard, the artist’s daughter .
    Literature: ‘Warneford,VC’, in Lilliput, March 1957, pp. 20–7.
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    Biography Sold


    Presentation: Unmounted


  • Moored boat, Christchurch priory 1940's (S|R 64) -
    Biography Sold


    Presentation: Mounted
    Signed Watercolour on board.
    9 1/2 x 14 9/16 in. (24 x37 cm.)
    Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.

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    Biography Sold


    Presentation: Unmounted


  • Leopard, circa 1950 -
    Biography Sold


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Red, white and black chalk on coloured paper,
    5 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. (14.5 x 27.5 cm.)
    (8 7/8 x 14 in. (22.5 x 35.5 cm.) framed)
  • Study of a horse's head -
    Biography Sold


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Pencil on paper, 4 3/4 x 3 in. (12 x 7.5cm.)
    (8 x 6 1/8 in. (20 x 15.5cm.) framed)
  • Rooster, circa 1940 -
    Biography Sold


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Red, white and black chalk on blue paper, 2 3/4 x 1 5/8 in. (7 x 4cm.)
    (6 x 4 3/4 in. (15 x 12cm.) framed)
  • Cockerel crowing -
    Biography Sold


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    White, red and black chalk on blue paper, 7 5/8 x 6 7/8 in. (19.5 x 17.5cm.) (11 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (28.5 x 26.5cm.) framed)
  • Christine with long hair, seated on a pouff circa 1950 (S|R 6) -
    Biography Sold


    Presentation: Mounted
    Pen ink and watercolour.
    8 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. (21.5 x 16.5 cm.)

    Provenance: Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.

  • Jaguar walking 1940's -
    Biography Sold


    Presentation: Mounted
    Inscribed with title Chacoal.
    6 1/2 x 12 5/8 in. (16.6 x 32 cm.)

    Provenance: Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.

  • Leopard, circa 1950 -
    Biography Sold


    Presentation: Passe-partout
    Coloured pencil on paper, 12.5 x 20cm (20.5 x 28cm framed)
  • Christine on a swing in the garden at 65 Dorchester Way, Kenton circa 1952 (S|R 19) -
    Biography Sold


    Presentation: Mounted
    Signed Watercolour on paper laid on board.
    13 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. (34.7 x 24 cm.)
    Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.
  • Borrowed gun for Liliput illustration
    Biography Sold


    Presentation: Mounted
    Variously inscribed Pen and ink with watercolour.
    10 x 14 in. (25.5 x 35.5 cm.)
    Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter. 
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