- Titles "Why Not," The Feline Fur Cleaning Association (Proper)
- Artist Ernest H. Shepard, British, born London 1879 - died 1976, Midhurst, West Sussex
- Medium pen and ink
- Dimensions sheet: 10 5/8 × 14 5/8 in. (27 × 37.1 cm) image: 7 3/4 × 11 in. (19.7 × 27.9 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Catherine H. Collins Collection, AFI.746.1998
- Work Type drawing
- Classification Drawings
- Signature Signed in black ink, lower left: Ernest H. Shepard. [underlined]
- Marks Label, verso, top right corner, printed: 21 JUL 1994 / 126[handwriiten] / CHRISTIES
- Inscription Recto, bottom left, in black ink: Why not [underlined] Below image center, in black ink: The Feline Fur cleaning association / Furs cleans by an entirely new and natural process. Verso, top left corner, in black ink: 31[underlined] / 804 Center, in pencil: Ernest H. Shepard / Shamley Green / Guildford [underlined] / 6 3/4 wide FZH[signed initials] Lower left, in pencil: 4791 Lower left, in pencil: opening 10 x 12 1/2 / [one word, illeg.] 15 1/2 x 17 1/2