BATHING IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE 1934 Ernest Howard Shepard PUNCH CARTOON PAGE

Original 10 3/4 inch x 8 1/4 inch Wood Engraved Cartoon page titled BATHING IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE from Punch, July 25, 1934.

The cartoon is by Ernest Howard Shepard (1879 - 1976). An English artist and book illustrator. Shepard was born in St John's Wood, London. Having shown some promise in drawing at St Paul's School, in 1897 he enrolled in the Heatherley School of Fine Art in Chelsea. After a productive year there, he attended the Royal Academy Schools, winning a Landseer scholarship in 1899 and a British Institute prize in 1900. By 1906 Shepard had become a successful illustrator, having produced work for illustrated editions of Aesop's Fables, David Copperfield, and Tom Brown's Schooldays, while at the same time working as an illustrator on the staff of Punch. Shepard published his first two cartoons in Punch in 1907, and worked for the magazine for almost 50 years. In 1921, he joined the staff, and made a variety of contributions that, during the 1920s, included many beautifully-observed social cartoons. Eventually succeeding Leonard Raven Hill as Second Cartoonist (1935-45) and Bernard Partridge as Cartoonist (1945-49), he produced astute political cartoons, especially during the Second World War. Even when he handed over the position as Cartoonist to Leslie Illingworth, he continued to contribute to Punch for another four years.

Punch, or The London Charivari, was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration.

The page is in very good condition with printed text and 2 small cartoons on the reverse