| Place | Europe: France |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | ART20002 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | Overall: 19.6 x 13.5 cm |
| Object type | Artist's book |
| Physical description | hard-bound, red and black paper cover; 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
|
Images of war: a book of poems by Richard Aldington
Description
A book of poems by British poet and novelist Richard Aldington (1892-1926), published by Beaumont Press, London, 1919. 48 pages of poems, with cover design and eleven hand-coloured woodcut illustrations by British modernist artist Paul Nash. The illustrations are on pp. 5, 13, 16, 18, 21, 22, 28, 30, 32, 40, 41.They depict scenes such as 'In the trenches', 'A ruined house' and 'Terror', portrayed in a semi-abstract style,and taken from black-and-white sketches that Nash inscribed with suggestion for colours. 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. This edition is the seventh issued by the Beaumont Press and the third printed by hand. 30 copies have been printed on Japanese vellum signed by the author and artist and numbered 1 to 30, 50 copies on cartridge paper numbered 31 to 80 and 120 copies on hand-made paper numbered 81 to 200. This copy is printed on cartridge paper and is no. 37 in the total edition of 200.
- Bomb crater: illustrating the poem 'Proem', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
- Green and blue landscape: illustrating the poem 'Fatigues', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
- In the trenches: illustrating the poem 'In the trenches', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
- Ruined house: illustrating the poem 'A ruined house', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
- Rats in the trenches: illustrating the poem 'Living sepulchres', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
- Dead bodies on barbed wire: illustrating the poem 'Trench idyll', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
- Barrage of bombs: illustrating the poem 'Barrage', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
- Bombardment: illustrating the poem 'Bombardment, in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
- Ruined landscape: illustrating the poem 'An earth goddess after the advance 1917', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
- Picket: illustrating the poem 'Picket', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
- Terror: illustrating the poem 'Terror', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington