drawing
- Museum number
- 2003,0601.88
- Description
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Hilton Abstract; poem written on the occasion of Roger Hilton's death in 1975, inscribed in italics, the title in red and blue, credits in red, the body of the poem in black, reading "Roger, whether the tree is made/ To speak or stand as a tree should,/ Lifting its branches over lovers/ And moving as the wind moves,/ It is the longed-for, loved event,/ To be by another aloneness loved./ Hell with this and hell with that/ And hell with all the scunnering lot./ This can go and that can go/ And leave us with the quick and slow./ And quick and slow are nothing much./ We either touch or do not touch./ Yet the great humilities/ Keep us always ill at ease./ The weather moves us and/ The mouse makes little sound./ Whatever happens happens and/ The false hands are moving round./ Hell with this and hell with that./ All that's best is better not./ Yet the great humilities/ Keep us always ill at ease,/ And in keeping us they go/ Through the quick and through the slow". 1975
Pen and ink on TH Saunders paper
- Production date
- 1975
- Dimensions
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Height: 445 millimetres
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Width: 276 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Roger Hilton died in February 1975. David Brown was an avid collector of his work, and the two were close friends.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2003
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2003,0601.88
