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Underground Sheltering

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photo: British Museum
Underground Sheltering
photo: British Museum
photo: British Museum

Underground Sheltering

Sketchbook
  • Page 21 from First Shelter Sketchbook
Date1940-41
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1579
Date Order NumberAG 40-41.21
Mediapencil, wax crayon, watercolour, wash, pen and ink
Papercream lightweight wove
Dimensionspaper: 181 x 160 mm
Inscription

pen and ink u.r. underground/sheltering

OwnershipThe British Museum, London, bequeathed by Lady Clark
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More Information

First Shelter Sketchbook p.21. The sketch immediately below Moore's individualised 'asterisk' was later worked up into a much larger drawing HMF 1725.

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