Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Cutting Machine
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Cutting Machine
Sketchbook
- Page 53 verso from Coalmining Notebook A
Date1941-42
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1910 verso
Date Order NumberAG 41-42.48
Mediapencil
Dimensionspaper: 127 x 200 mm
Inscription
pencil c.l. Siskol; handle; c.r. Siskol coal/cutting machine.
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
More InformationCoalmining Notebook A p.53. The coal-cutting machines sketched and referred to by name on the verso worked either by percussion – known as the 'Pom-pom' because of the sound it made – or by means of a cutting bit operated by rotary motion.