Stranded Traveller (miles from anywhere): 'Excuse me, but my car has broken down. Do you know anything about Fords?' Passing Motorist: 'Awfully sorry. I'm afraid I know nothing about Ford; except, of course, two frightfully funny stories.'

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Stranded Traveller (miles from anywhere): 'Excuse me, but my car has broken down. Do you know anything about Fords?' Passing Motorist: 'Awfully sorry. I'm afraid I know nothing about Ford; except, of course, two frightfully funny stories.'

Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)

Price

£3,500

Signed

Signed
Inscribed with title below mount

Medium

Pen and ink

Dimensions

8 ½ x 12 ¾ inches

Illustrated

Punch, 1 October 1924, Page 368;
Fun and Fantasy. Drawings From Punch by Ernest H Shepard, London: Methuen, 1927, Page 75

Exhibited

'E H Shepard at Punch, 1907-1952', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, July 2019;
'The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1865-2019', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November 2019-January 2020, no 90;
'E H Shepard, The Art of Popular Culture: From Winnie-the-Pooh to Punch', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, December 2025-January 2026

Mounted

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