An original pen & ink cartoon by Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976) for Punch magazine in 1921 featuring a scene humorously suggesting that the Ashes c

An original pen & ink cartoon by Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976) for Punch magazine in 1921 featuring a scene humorously suggesting that the Ashes cricket Test Match at Lord's and the Westchester Cup polo match at Hurlingham might be played simultaneously for the convenience of American visitors to the London sporting summer season, 20 by 32cm., mounted with a printed legend including the title TO SUIT OUR TRANSATLANTIC VISITORS: SPEEDING UP THE LONDON SEASON, framed under glass, overall 36 by 46cm., sold together with the original page from the Punch Summer magazine 1921, featuring Shepard's artwork, very good (2) E.H. Shepard was a book illustrator and painter in oil and watercolour, who received the OBE in 1972. He lived in Sussex and is most famous for his anthropomorphic animal characters in A A Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In The Willows. Exhibited: Reception and Exhibition St James's Palace, London, 13th June 2006.