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History of Sculpture Notebook, 1920
Leeds Museums and Galleries: gift of Jocelyn Horner
Black paper-covered boards quarter-bound in black cloth 229 x 182mm now containing 40 pages of cream lightweight laid paper 229 x 180mm, with seven pages detached and many others missing.
The notebook is too fragmentary to ascertain the number of pages per signature, though six signatures are certain with up to sixteen pages per signature possible. They were never signed or dated by the artist. The pages were originally unnumbered but at some time after 1991 were numbered in pencil top right on the recto by the present owner. On the inside of the front cover, upper left, is a stuck-on label describing the notebook as 'Bushey sketchbook - for pen or pencil'.
The name 'Bushey' has sometimes been misleadingly used to describe the notebook. The notebook contents are primarily a collection of short texts on the history of sculpture made while Moore was a student at Leeds School of Art. Blank pages or pages with only an inscription have not been included in the catalogue raisonné or given AG numbers, though each carries an HMF archive number. Although the notebook was bound in portrait format a number of pages were drawn on in landscape and have been described and illustrated accordingly.
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HMF 20(3) verso and 20(4)
inscription: pen and ink: Assyrian and Egyptian Sculpture/Egyptian Art earliest art known to Hist./Egyptian History divided into 3 periods./1 (circled) The Ancient Empire 1st – 4th Dynasties/Capital – Memphis/1st king – Mena – o –es 4000 BC./3700 Senefern – Khu-fu or Cheops/builder of the grt pyramid + Sphinx./2 (circled) Middle Empire – Cap – Thebes-comprising 11th to 20th dyns a (circled) The old Theban Empire 11th – 16th dyns/b (circled) The New Theban Emp 16-20th dyns./13th-16th dyns a confused period about which little is known. During this period the/Hyksos or Shepherd Kings reigned in Egypt/These latter were driven out + with the new Theban Empire one of the most glorious periods/of Art set in i.e Rameses period 9from 1st +2nd /builders of temples/3 (circled) The New Empire – Sais – cap.21st-30th dyns