ERNEST HOWARD SHEPARD (1879-1976) USSR: Cossack dancing with the Saint Basil's Cathedral of Moscow on the background and surrounded by symbols of communism - hammer and sickle

signed and numbered : ‘E.H. Shepard / 5’ (lower right) watercolour, pencil on paper 22.8 x 16.6 cm (sheet) Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976) was an English artist and a successful illustrator, having produced work for illustrated editions of Aesop's Fables, David Copperfield, and Tom Brown's Schooldays, while at the same time working as an illustrator on the staff of Punch. He is known especially for illustrations of the anthropomorphic animal and soft toy characters in The Wind in the ‘Willows’ and ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’