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Living Sepulchres

Drawing
1919 (made)
Artist/Maker
Nash, Paul (Artist)
Nash, Paul (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain
Great Britain (made)

These are Nash’s original drawings for a book of poems by Richard Aldington, based on his experiences in World War I. Each shows a scene from the battlefields of northern France. They include several motifs familiar from Nash’s paintings of the war – barbed wire, rain and mud, ruins and blasted trees. Some, such as Barrage and Terror, employ the dynamic abstraction of Vorticism to represent explosions and other violent events.

Object details

Categories
Illustration
War
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleLiving Sepulchres (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink, paper, drawing
Pen and Ink
Pencil
Paper
Drawing
Brief description
'Living Sepulchres'; one of eleven drawings by Paul Nash adhered on one sheet. Illustrations to 'Images of War' by Richard Aldington, a book of poetry about World War I.
Physical description
One of eleven small pen and ink illustrations adhered to a sheet.
Dimensions
  • Illustration height: 50mm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1975)
  • Illustration width: 75mm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1975)
  • Illustration width: 75mm
  • Support sheet height: 291mm
  • Support sheet width: 355mm
  • Sheet height: 291mm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1975)
  • Sheet width: 355mm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1975)
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Original pen drawings for Richard Aldington. Images of War, (inscribed in pencil by Paul Nash)
  • In the Trenches, Picket, Earth Goddess, Fatigues, Trench Idyl?, Barrage, Proem, Bombardment, Ruined House, Living Sepulchres, Terror (titles next to each illustration)
Gallery label
(08/08/2022)
These are Nash’s original drawings for a book of poems by Richard Aldington, based on his experiences in World War I. Each shows a scene from the battlefields of northern France. They include several motifs familiar from Nash’s paintings of the war – barbed wire, rain and mud, ruins and blasted trees. Some, such as Barrage and Terror, employ the dynamic abstraction of Vorticism to represent explosions and other violent events.
Credit line
The Paul Nash Trust
Object history
The object is eleven illustrations pasted onto one sheet. When the object came into the collection each illustration was given an individual extension but CIRC.294andAtoJ-1975 are one object. The proof sheet CIRC.294K-1975 is a separate object.
Subjects depicted
War
War
Rats
World War I
Summary
These are Nash’s original drawings for a book of poems by Richard Aldington, based on his experiences in World War I. Each shows a scene from the battlefields of northern France. They include several motifs familiar from Nash’s paintings of the war – barbed wire, rain and mud, ruins and blasted trees. Some, such as Barrage and Terror, employ the dynamic abstraction of Vorticism to represent explosions and other violent events.
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Aldington, Richard Images of war, a book of poems by Richard Aldington Westminster, London, Beaumont Press, 1919
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1975
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CIRC.294I-1975

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Record createdNovember 26, 2015
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1325434/living-sepulchres-drawing-nash-paul/
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