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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 2062
Date Order NumberAG 42.172
Mediapencil, wax crayon, watercolour, wash, pen and ink
Paperoff-white heavyweight J. WHATMAN wove
Dimensionspaper: 180 x 189 mm
Signature

pen and ink l.r. Moore/42

Inscriptionblack wax crayon c. THE/LYRE/BIRD
Ownershipprivate collection, UK
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photo of cover not of original drawing

This drawing is a cut-down page from Square Forms and Lyre Birds Sketchbook 1936, c.1938, 1942, 1972, see HMF 1276. It was used as the cover for Issue No.8 November-December 1942 and on the front cover of Stephen Spender's Poetry since 1939, Longman, London 1946. For the genesis of the drawing, see comment on HMF 1236.

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