THE BLUE MOON

ILLUSTRATED BY LAURENCE HOUSMAN & ENGRAVED BY CLEMENCE HOUSMAN

The image is in portrait orientation and is centered on the page. The image is printed in black ink. In the foreground right, a bearded man with a tall, large brimmed, conical hat is leaning against the door to a small walled garden, resting on a bed of picked flowers. The top of the man’s face is exposed. However, the rest of his body is draped in a light fabric. A circular shield with one right wing is leaning against the man’s lower body. The left door to the garden is standing open. Both doors are decorated with a tracery pattern of growing roots and ripening fruits. The open door provides passage to a woodland landscape. Bricked steps raised one level lead to the woodland landscape where three tall evergreen trees are distinctly depicted. To the bottom left of the walled garden, a small signature, “LH” is present. The image has a header: line one: “The Blue Moon,” line two: “By Laurence Housman,”line three: “London: John Murray 1904.” The image has a footer: line one: “Engraved by,” line two: “Clemence Housman.” The image is framed by a wide decorative border, detailed with intertwining vines, leaves, and bunches of grapes.

MLA citation:

Housman, Laurence. “The Blue Moon.” The Venture: an Annual of Art and Literature, vol. 1, 1903, p. 207. Venture Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2019-2021. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2021, https://1890s.ca/vv1-housman-moon/

magazine_images The Venture 1 The Blue Moon Laurence Housman 1903 Wood Engraving Illustration Clemence Housman

The image is in portrait orientation and is centered on the page. The image is printed in black ink. In the foreground right, a bearded man with a tall, large brimmed, conical hat is leaning against the door to a small walled garden, resting on a bed of picked flowers. The top of the man’s face is exposed. However, the rest of his body is draped in a light fabric. A circular shield with one right wing is leaning against the man’s lower body. The left door to the garden is standing open. Both doors are decorated with a tracery pattern of growing roots and ripening fruits. The open door provides passage to a woodland landscape. Bricked steps raised one level lead to the woodland landscape where three tall evergreen trees are distinctly depicted. To the bottom left of the walled garden, a small signature, “LH” is present. The image has a header: line one: “The Blue Moon,” line two: “By Laurence Housman,”line three: “London: John Murray 1904.” The image has a footer: line one: “Engraved by,” line two: “Clemence Housman.” The image is framed by a wide decorative border, detailed with intertwining vines, leaves, and bunches of grapes.

Window, Wall, Door, Weapons, Shield, Wings, Fruit, Grapes, and Vines Human Figure and Male Figure/ Man Outdoor setting, Outside, Exterior, Garden, Tree, Plant, Evergreen, Pathway, and Brick pathway