ERNEST HOWARD SHEPARD (1879-1976) China: Chinese man carrying loads Set of two drawings

i) watercolour on paper signed, inscribed, numbered ‘E.H. Shepard / 7/ Red too strong’ (lower right) 22.8 x 16.6 cm (sheet) ii) 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’