29th Nov, 2023 10:00
Moore-Park (Carton)
Stork, design for a book illustration,
pen and black ink and black wash, with white gouache, over pencil, on board, a small piece of paper correction pasted onto the centre of the sheet, titled 'TWENTY-SIX BIRDS' in black ink, inscribed and dated 'Final design' and 'The Book of Birds, 1899' (upper left and upper right), further inscribed with dimensions and printer’s notes in the left and right margins, 29 x 18.9 cm.
Literature: Carton Moore-Park, The Book of Birds, London, 1900, reproduced on the last page.
***The present sheet is a preparatory drawing for a full-page illustration which appears at the end of A Book of Birds, published in 1900 by Blackie & Son of London, Glasgow and Dublin, for whom Moore-Park worked extensively.
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