ERNEST HOWARD SHEPARD (1879-1976). English illustrator and cartoonist, best remembered as the original illustrator of A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books, and a longtime political cartoonist for Punch magazine.
c. 1940s World War Two Era, Original Pencil Cartoon Artwork, measuring 10.75 x 8 inches and Signed, "E.H. Shepard" at the lower right corner, captioned: "THE MORE WE GET TOGETHER..." Choice Very Fine. The drawing depicts the four Allied leaders of the Second World War, Chiang Kai-shek, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin, cast as Boy Scouts kneeling and standing around a campfire built from two crossed staffs, studying a map spread between them; one figure wears a sash reading CHIANG KAI-SHEK, and packs at the corners are lettered with supply designations including W.S.C. SUPPLIES, for Winston S. Churchill.

Casting the "Big Four" as Scouts pooling their supplies around a shared fire is notable in that these four leaders never actually met together in person during the war, since Soviet neutrality with Japan kept Stalin from joining any conference alongside Chiang Kai-shek; this cartoon instead visualizes the alliance in principle, echoing the "Four Policemen" concept that Franklin Roosevelt championed for a postwar security order, formalized in the Moscow Declaration of October 1943 and eventually embedded in the permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council.

Ernest Howard "E.H." Shepard (1879-1976), best remembered as the original illustrator of A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books, also contributed Political Cartoons to Punch for nearly fifty years, rising to Second Cartoonist in 1935 and succeeding Bernard Partridge as the magazine's principal Cartoonist in 1945. This original artwork sheet retains several original editorial pencil “notations” in the margins, including a page reference, consistent with working production art being prepared for the magazine. Likely a unique production sketch signed by the famous illustrator.