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The Lyre Bird: Cover Design for 'Poetry'

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The Lyre Bird: Cover Design for 'Poetry'
The Lyre Bird: Cover Design for 'Poetry'
The Lyre Bird: Cover Design for 'Poetry'

The Lyre Bird: Cover Design for 'Poetry'

Sketchbook
  • Cover Design for Poetry
Date1942
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 2059
Date Order NumberAG 42.169
Mediapencil, wax crayon, coloured crayon, watercolour, pen and ink, gouache
Papercream heavyweight wove
Dimensionspaper: 248 x 181 mm
Signature

pen and ink l.r. Moore/42

Inscriptionblack wax crayon l.c. THE LYRE BIRD
Ownershipprivate collection, UK
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Cover for Issue No.11 September-October 1947. It also appeared as the endpaper for Bridge between Two Worlds by Tambimuttu, Peter Owen, London 1989.

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