Ariel Poems 17 - Winters Nights - illustration by Albert Rutherston
The Ariel Poems were small, crafted pamphlets issued over many years by Faber & Faber. This is from the first sequence issued, No 17, published in 1928. The printing is by the renowned Curwen Press in Plaistow, east London (then probably at the height of their prowess) and the poem by Blunden is illustarted by a vignette on the front cover and this beautiful single page by Albert Rutherston. Rutherston was born on 5 December 1881 as Albert Daniel Rothenstein, in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and anglised his name for patriotic reasons in 1916. He came from one of the noted Bradford German families and, like his brother Sir William Rothenstein was an artist and illustrator.
Ariel Poems 17 - Winters Nights - illustration by Albert Rutherston
The Ariel Poems were small, crafted pamphlets issued over many years by Faber & Faber. This is from the first sequence issued, No 17, published in 1928. The printing is by the renowned Curwen Press in Plaistow, east London (then probably at the height of their prowess) and the poem by Blunden is illustarted by a vignette on the front cover and this beautiful single page by Albert Rutherston. Rutherston was born on 5 December 1881 as Albert Daniel Rothenstein, in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and anglised his name for patriotic reasons in 1916. He came from one of the noted Bradford German families and, like his brother Sir William Rothenstein was an artist and illustrator.