SHEPARD, 'TRI JUNCTA IN UNO', INK, 1947

286 by 235mm., pen and ink, signed, inscribed with title below mount, mounted, framed and glazed

EXHIBITED:
‘The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1837-2011’, November 2011-January 2012, no 184

Punch, 23 July 1947, page 85

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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On 15 August 1947, British India was officially divided into the sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan and the Union of India on the basis of religious demographics. The division was intended to forge strong relationships between Britain and the two new states, as depicted by Shepard’s British Lion and the Bengal Tiger, the national symbol of India, now representing both India and Pakistan. However, neither new government was able to cope with the scale of migration and religious tensions led to violence that caused the deaths of no fewer than several hundred thousand people and possibly as many as one million.