Rhyme Sheet / Beautiful Meals / Water

Thomas Sturge Moore

woodcut and letterpress printed in colour

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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Physical Object Description:

Two poems, each with a head-piece and roundel; above, 'Beautiful Meals' a poem of four verses with a head-piece showing a child in a snow-covered landscape holding a hoop, stick and bun and a roundel of a place laid at table; 'Water' a poem of three verses with a head-piece showing a woman swimming in a river and a roundel of an infant geni flying above a sleeping child and catching a butterfly.

Woodcut and letterpress printed in colour. Lettered above the image '[No. 6] / [Poems and Decorations by T. Sturge Moore.] / Price: 2d. coloured; 1d. plain. / The Poetry Bookshop, 35 Devonshire Street, Theobalds Road, W.C.'.

Technique:

Woodcut, Letterpress

Dimensions:

4.3 x 14.4 (image) cm

Accession Number:

1916,0505.3

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1916

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Committee

Ownership history:

Purchased by the Contemporary Art Society, 1910-16; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1916

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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