£330 

Raymond Sheppard:
Rhino head
Unmounted (ref: 6197)
Pen and ink, pencil on irregular paper

Tags: Raymond Sheppard drawing ink pen and ink pencil farms/domestic animals

Provenance: The Artist's Estate; Private collection

EH Gombrich  references Raymond Sheppard's 'How to Draw Birds', and includes a reproduction of one of his drawings,  in his celebrated treatise 'Art and Illusion', (1960).

Sheppard’s output as a graphic artist was prodigious, but he is less well known today than he might be, partly on account of his early death, at the age of forty-five. His remarkable studies of birds and animals from life were mainly undertaken at Regent’s Park Zoo. On the strength of these he was made a Fellow of the Zoological Society in 1949. In the same year, he published ‘Drawing at the Zoo’, one of three collaborations made with The Studio magazine.