| Place | Europe: France |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | ART20002.002 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | sheet: 18.8 x 12.6 cm; image: 5 x 7.7 cm |
| Object type | |
| Physical description | hand-coloured woodcut on paper; edition: 37/200 |
| Maker |
Nash, Paul |
| Place made | United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London |
| Date made | 1919 |
| Conflict |
Period 1910-1919 First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
Green and blue landscape: illustrating the poem 'Fatigues', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
Description
Hand-coloured woodcut illustrating the poem 'Fatigues', the second 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. 13. The image is semi-abstract in style, depicting a green and blue landscape, with blue sky and white clouds. 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.