Ruined landscape: illustrating the poem 'An earth goddess after the advance 1917', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington

Hand-coloured woodcut illustrating the poem 'An earth goddess after the advance 1917', the ninth 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. 32. The image is an abstract depiction of pouring rain on a bomb-damaged landscape. 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.