A Certain Widower In Order to Amuse His Solitary Hours, and In Some Measure Supply the Conversion of His Departed Helpmate – of Loquacious Memory – Determined to Purchase a Parrot.
James Affleck Shepherd (1876-1946)
Price
£550
Signed
Inscribed below mount Inscribed on reverse
Medium
Watercolour with ink
Dimensions
5 ¼ x 9 ½
inches
Illustrated
The Strand Magazine, January 1896 [Unpaginated], Fables – The Widower and the Parrot No 1
Exhibited
'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1780-1993', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November 1993, no 271