Place | Europe: France |
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Accession Number | ART20002.007 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | sheet: 18.8 cm x 12.4 cm; image: 5 x 7.5 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
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Barrage of bombs: illustrating the poem 'Barrage', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
Hand-coloured woodcut illustrating the poem 'Barrage', the seventh 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. 28. The image is the same as the red cover design. It is an abstract depiction of a barrage of bombs hurtling to the ground. The poem reads: 'Thunder,/ The gallop of innumerable Walkyrie impetuous/ for battle,/ The beating of vast wings above Prometheus,/ The contest of tall barbaric gods smitten by the hammer of Thor,/ Pursuit! Pursuit! Pursuit!/ The huge black dogs of hell/ Leaping, full-mouthed, in murderous pursuit!' The work 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.