Size: 17 x 11cm Technique: Paper Inscription: To Mama with all my love, Walter. This is sweet music being played while I am drawing.
Category: Found Type: Book
ART 1896
Additional notes: Drawing of St Mark’s Square, Venice. Pencil on paper. Image: 17 x 11cm; Cover: 17.5 x 12cm; Opening: 17.5 x 24 cm.
With Poem and Bookplate? (in Murray Schoonraad)
The poem is really prescient.
The Vagabond by W. W. Battiss
The world is round,
But I am square;
I've proved a misfit everywhere.
Many a gift I've squandered,
Many a mile I've wandered,
Many a day I've hungered,
Many a time I've wondered,
“Was it God or me who blundered?”
The scrapbook was dedicated to his mother and contains clippings of poems and one of Walter Battiss dated Aug 1938, a photograph of “My beloved son Alfred” and several letters laid in.