←Menu of Pictures of George Moore
Who is Grace Gifford?
Cupid and Psyche
1914, aet. 62
Captioned Cupid and Psyche. Signed Grace Gifford. Full-length on pointe of his right foot, on the left side of the picture, smiling and sporting wings, holding bow and arrow; looking over the shoulder of a smiling Susan Mitchell seated at her typewriter gazing up at Moore. Mitchell’s book about Moore, which he helped to write, appeared in 1916.
Published in the Irish Review, September- November 1914. Present whereabouts unknown.
Liberty of Speech
Captioned Mr George Moore. Signed Grace Plunkett. Full-length smiling and pigeon-toed, turned slightly to his left and looking to his right, his left hand raised over his head and holding a torch like the Statue of Liberty, standing on a stack of three books on a plinth captioned: Liberty (of Speech).
Published in Mrs. Joseph Plunkett, “To Hold as Twere’ (1920). Owned by the National Library of Ireland. Dublin, Ireland.
The Theosophical Idea
Undated
(Better image and metadata forthcoming)
Captioned The Theosophical idea — Emmet Re-incarnated. Inscribed And in the channel’s highest flood / I fished all day unseen / For there was lightning in my Blood / My dark Rosaleen. On verso A widow’s Mite George Moore. Full length, perched on a timber above the waves, right arm extended holding a fishing rod, left hand clutching his breast. A female spirit, strumming a harp, holds a crown of laurel above his head. A distant lighthouse in the lower right side of the picture. The drawing is unsigned but is related in style and attitude to the work of Grace Gifford.
Published [in a book] without attribution. Owned by the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Oh You George!
Captioned George Moore. Signed Grace Gifford. Full-length seated, knees together, pigeon-toed, right hand holding an object to his chest, left hand resting on his left knee. A dark rectangle is behind him; a tiny woman is in the lower right corner of the picture, looking up at him with hands clasped as though in supplication, with a speech bubble: Oh You George! Inscribed in pencil (not part of the drawing): This could be taken out. An arrow is drawn next to the inscription. Inscribed in pencil on verso Original cartoon of George Moore, novelist by Grace Giford. [sic]
OWNER’S DESCRIPTION: ‘Illustration of George Moore, with his walking stick, seated. A woman, wringing her hands is depicted to the right of George Moore, saying “Oh you George!”, with an arrow and the words “this could be taken out” beside her.’ I don’t see the stick.
Owned by the National Library of Ireland. Dublin, Ireland.
Holding a Bouquet
Signed Grace Gifford. George Moore of the left side of the picture, full-length half-turned to his left, fawning and pigeon-toed, a bouquet of flowers held to his chest in his left hand. Moore looks at a black object on a hanger, possibly an old-fashioned bustier, on the right side of the picture.
Owned by the National Library of Ireland. Dublin, Ireland.
Leave a comment