Carton MOORE-PARK - A Stork (Twenty-Six Birds): Design for a Book Illustration

Date	1899
Period	1850-1900, 19th century
Origin	UK, USA
Medium	Pen, Black ink, Black wash, White gouache, Over a pencil underdrawing, On board
Dimensions	18.9 x 29 cm (7¹/₂ x 11³/₈ inches)
Gallery	Stephen Ongpin Fine Art

Description
Technical

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 Carton Moore-Park worked extensively. As Charles Hiatt noted of the book, ‘Mr. Moore Park followed his Alphabet of Animalswith the no less delightful Book of Birds. In the latter volume the old qualities were still there, but the touch was surer, the decoration of finer and more subtle quality. The second book was distinctly an advance on the first.’

This drawing is sold with a copy of Carton Moore-Park’s The Book of Birds.

306 x 395 mm. (12 x 15 1/2 in.) [sheet]

Date: 1899
Period: 1850-1900, 19th century
Origin: UK, USA
Medium: Pen, Black ink, Black wash, White gouache, Over a pencil underdrawing, On board
Signature: A small piece of paper correction, for the feet of the stork, pasted onto the centre of the sheet.
Titled TWENTY-SIX BIRDS in black ink at the bottom.
Inscribed and dated Final design and The Book of Birds, 1899 in pencil at the top left and top right.
Further inscribed with dimensions and printer’s notes in pencil and blue chalk in the left and right margins.

Dimensions: 18.9 x 29 cm (7¹/₂ x 11³/₈ inches)
Literature: Carton Moore-Park, The Book of Birds, London, 1900, reproduced on the last page.

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