Bomb crater: illustrating the poem 'Proem', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington

Hand-coloured woodcut illustrating the poem 'Proem', the first illustration in a book of poems by British poet and novelist Richard Aldington (1892-1926), published by Beaumont Press, London, 1919. This illustration is on p. 5; the poem is dated May 1917. The image is semi-abstract in style, depicting a bomb crater with barbed wire entanglements, muddy trenches and distant blue hills. It is taken from one of a series of black-and-white sketches that Nash inscribed with colour notes. These sketches are held in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. There are copies of this book without the hand-colouring at the Minories, Colchester and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 'Images of war' was Aldington's second volume of poetry.