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Illustrations Walter de la Mares Love
Purchased 1945
adults
animals: birds
architecture
body
book - non-specific
de la Mare, Walter, ‘Love’
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
fine arts and music
head / face
house
instrument, stringed
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
love
man
night
objects
owl
people
reading, writing, printed matter
residential
times of the day
tree
woman
paper unique ink watercolour
14 March 2020 – 1 November 2020
2020-11-01
14 March 2020 – 1 November 2020
2020-11-01
2020-03-14
Pallant House Gallery (Chichester, UK)
2020-03-14
The Life and Work of Barnett Freedman
Loan-out
Illustrations for Walter de la Mare’s ‘Love’
support: 140 × 89 mm
frame: 435 × 1270 × 30 mm
Purchased 1945
<p><b>N05610</b> TWENTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS FOR WALTER DE LA MARE'S ‘LOVE’ 1942
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<br/>Inscr. ‘22 drawings for Line Blocks - Walter de la Mare's “Love”, Faber and Faber, 1942, Barnett Freedman’ b.r.
<br/>Pen and ink and watercolour, each 5 1/2×3 1/2 (14×9).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1945.
<br/><i>Lit:</i>
Jonathan Mayne, <i>Barnett Freedman</i>, 1948, pp.32–4, repr. pp.91–5.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> R. H. Wilenski, <i>English Painting</i>, 3rd cd., 1954, pl.168 (‘Eros’).</p>
<p>The illustrations and a book-jacket in colour were made while the artist was serving with the Royal Marines. The book (an anthology) was published by Faber and Faber in 1943. Each illustration introduces a section of the Anthology. The titles are inscribed on the mount. They appear in the book as follows: ‘In the Springtime’, p.2; ‘Things great and small’, p.22; ‘Children and Friends’, p.52; ‘The Cause and Measure’, p.68; ‘Love scrutinised’, p.84; ‘Love and Poetry’, p.126 and title-page; ‘First Love’, p.160; ‘She shall be called Woman’, p.172; ‘Grace and Beauty’, p.224; ‘Eros’, p.248 and frontispiece; ‘The Fever and the Fret’, p.276; ‘Love thwarted and unrequited’, p.316; ‘Love Betrayed’, p.340; ‘Love lamented’, p.372; ‘Love and happiness’, p.386; ‘Wild flowers’, p.402; ‘Farewell’, p.424; ‘In Absence’, p.448; ‘Constancy’, p.462; ‘Love in grief’, p.482; ‘Love after Death’, p.508; ‘Divine love’, p.536. They are mounted in two rows of eleven but not in the above order.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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2004-07-22T00:00:00
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adults animals: birds architecture body book - non-specific de la Mare, Walter, ‘Love’ emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas fine arts and music head / face house instrument, stringed literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) love man night objects owl people reading, writing, printed matter residential times of the day tree woman