SOLDExtensively inscribed with printing instructions
Pen and ink on board prepared with gesso, 9 1/2 x 7 7/8 in. (24 x 20 cm.)
Tags: Raymond Sheppard ink panel pen and ink print night scenes and sleep war
Literature: Raymond Sheppard, Master Illustrator, Liss Fine Art, November 2010, Cat.74
Provenance: Christine Sheppard, the artist’s daughter .
Literature: ‘Warneford,VC’, in Lilliput, March 1957, pp. 20–7.
This
illustration, from 1957, was commissioned by Lilliput, a small-format
British monthly magazine of humour , short stories, photographs and the
arts, founded in 1937 by the photojournalist Stefan Lorant.The
illustration records an important event in the FirstWorldWar , when on
31 May 1915, the LZ-38
became the first Zeppelin to bomb London: ‘we
can still feel a macabre horror over the picture of a pencil-slim object
slow-moving in the night-dark, licked by searchlights, seemingly immune
to gunfire, slipping incredible death from its belly before gliding
unharmed away’ (Lilliput).
Raymond Sheppard served with the Royal Air Force photographic section
from 1939–45.
