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The Stabbed Dove and the Fountain, Apollinaire

The Stabbed Dove and the Fountain, Apollinaire

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  • Designed in France
  • Eco-friendly FSC-certified paper
  • Average delivery: 3 to 5 business days

« Sweet figures stabbed, dear flowering lips, MIA MAREYE YETTE LORIE ANNIE and you MARIE. »

Context of the work

One of Apollinaire's most poignant calligrams: the words form a dove and a fountain, while the text recites the names of beloved women and mourns friends fallen at the front. Published in Calligrammes (1918), it merges war mourning and romantic nostalgia into a single typographical image.

What does Apollinaire mourn in "The Stabbed Dove and the Fountain"?

The poem blends the memory of beloved women, named one by one, and the mourning of friends who fell in battle during the First World War, in a calligram that depicts a dove and a fountain.

What size should I choose for this "The Stabbed Dove and the Fountain" poster?

This "The Stabbed Dove and the Fountain" poster is available in 30 x 40 cm, 40 x 50 cm and 50 x 70 cm. The 30 x 40 cm size is suitable for a hallway, office, or gallery wall; the 50 x 70 cm size stands alone above a sofa or bed. The frame is not included; the sizes are standard and can be found in stores.

Gift idea for a war poetry enthusiast, an Apollinaire fan, or anyone touched by texts that blend love and mourning.

Lean in close and you'll see the letters aren't perfectly crisp. That's because they come from a page printed more than 100 years ago. Between a clean copy in a modern font and the real type of the period, we chose the real thing.

Features and sizes

Available sizes: 30 x 40 cm, 40 x 50 cm, 50 x 70 cm
Paper: thick eco-friendly matte paper
Printing: high resolution, colorfast over time
Frame: not included
Print medium: poster, art print on matte paper
Theme: calligram, visual poetry
Delivery: most orders arrive in 5 business days, careful packaging

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Close-up of the grain of our thick eco-friendly matte 170 gsm paper

Heure d'été Editions

Beautiful words deserve beautiful paper

These verses are set to be hung: a chosen typeface, measured margins, white space worked around the text. The paper, an uncoated matte 170 gsm, stays slightly fibrous: it reads like the page of a book.

There is a quiet pleasure in living with French literature in the original. The poem keeps the language it was written in, and with it the sound the writer chose, which no translation quite carries over. On an English-speaking wall it stops being decoration and becomes something with a little cachet: a piece of France you can read on your way past, every morning. It earns the large format. At 50x70 cm the text is read from across the room, and the page holds a wall the way a painting does.

  • Matte paper, 170 gsm
  • Eco-friendly, FSC certified
  • Printed close to you

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