[For Don and Julia: diptych], 1961

Record number
cm000173
Title
[For Don and Julia: diptych]
Date
1961
Medium
enamel
Support
2 hardboard panels
Dimensions
446 x 555 mm (overall)
Inscriptions
1: C. M. OCT. NOV. '61. (brushpoint, l.r.)
2: C. M. OCT NOV '61 (brushpoint, b.l.)
Extended inscriptions
2: FOR
Julia
1961 (c.l.-l.l.);
HOW TO KEEP. IS THERE ANY ANY,
IS THERE NONE SUCH, NOWHERE KNOWN SOME. BOW
OR BROOCH OR BRAID OR BRACE, LACE, LATCH OR
OR CATCH OR KEY TO KEEP BACK BEAUTY,
KEEP IT. BEAUTY, BEAUTY, BEAUTY,
FROM
VANISHING
AWAY. (l.c.-b.c.)
Notes
The text is from Gerald Manley Hopkins' 'The Leaden Echo'.