Chris Beetles Gallery

Happiness

Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)

Price

SOLD

Medium

Lithograph

Dimensions

11 ¼ x 7 ½ inches

Provenance

Label on reverse reads: 'This illustration and the poem entitled "Happiness" are taken from "When We Were Very Young," by A A Milne (Methuen & Co Ltd, London);
The Christopher Fyfe Collection

Exhibited

'E H Shepard, The Art of Popular Culture: From Winnie-the-Pooh to Punch', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, December 2025-January 2026

Part of a portfolio set of 6 lithographs on mould-made paper published by Methuen & Co, London, in 1924 of verses from When We Were Very Young by A.A.Milne. A limited edition of 250 sets, of which these are set No 73, the lithographs are of the original drawings done by Shepard surrounding Milne's verses, which are written in fine calligraphy.

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