E. H. Shepard

Ernest Howard Shepard OBE MC (10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is known especially for illustrations of the anthropomorphic animal and soft toy characters in The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh.

E. H. Shepard

Birth nameErnest Howard Shepard
Born(1879-12-10)10 December 1879
St John's Wood, London, England
Died24 March 1976(1976-03-24) (aged 96)
London, England
Battles/warsWorld War I
ChildrenMary Shepard
Graham Shepard
Other workArtist and book illustrator of The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh

Shepard's original 1926 illustrated map of the Hundred Acre Wood, which features in the opening pages of Winnie-the-Pooh (and also appears in the opening animation in the first Disney adaptation in 1966), sold for £430,000 ($600,000) at Sotheby's in London, setting a world record for book illustrations.

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