The Diplomatic Touch, 1908
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Claude Allin Shepperson (1867-1921)
Cartoon taken from a disbound copy of the Punch Almanack, 1908
In a cream conservation grade mount (matt)
In very good condition
Cartoon: 18.8 x 11.6 cm (visible); mount: 20.4 x 25.4 cm (8" x 10")
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Claude Allin Shepperson ARA ARE ARWS RI (1867-1921)
Shepperson, born at Beckenham, Kent, studied art in Paris and at Heatherley’s School. A noted landscape painter and etcher, he exhibited extensively at, for example, the Royal Academy, the Royal Watercolour Society and the Leicester Galleries. His society-themed cartoons appeared in Punch from 1905. Shepperson was elected an Associate member of the Royal Academy in 1919.
Collections
Birmingham Art Gallery and Museum
British Museum
Leeds City Art Gallery
Victoria and Albert Museum
Sources and further reading
Bryant M and Heneage S (1994), Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists 1730-1980, Scolar Press
Johnson J and Greutzner A (1999), British Artists 1880-1940, Antique Collectors’ Club
Mackenzie I, (1988), British Prints, Antique Collectors’ Club
Price R G G (1957), A History of Punch, Collins
Waters G M (1975), Dictionary of British Artists 1900-1950, Eastbourne Fine Art
Shepperson, born at Beckenham, Kent, studied art in Paris and at Heatherley’s School. A noted landscape painter and etcher, he exhibited extensively at, for example, the Royal Academy, the Royal Watercolour Society and the Leicester Galleries. His society-themed cartoons appeared in Punch from 1905. Shepperson was elected an Associate member of the Royal Academy in 1919.
Collections
Birmingham Art Gallery and Museum
British Museum
Leeds City Art Gallery
Victoria and Albert Museum
Sources and further reading
Bryant M and Heneage S (1994), Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists 1730-1980, Scolar Press
Johnson J and Greutzner A (1999), British Artists 1880-1940, Antique Collectors’ Club
Mackenzie I, (1988), British Prints, Antique Collectors’ Club
Price R G G (1957), A History of Punch, Collins
Waters G M (1975), Dictionary of British Artists 1900-1950, Eastbourne Fine Art