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Title(s)
Butterflies of Britain.
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Additional Title(s)
British butterflies
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Published/Created
[London] : [Tracey Bush], [2003]
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Physical Description
24 cut-paper butterflies ; in wooden box 21 x 26 x 6 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7433.4.B87 B74 2003b Flat A
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
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Copyright Status
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Full Alma Record
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Classification
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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Notes
The layers of paper for each moth or butterfly is sewn together using a bookbinder's pamphlet stitch. Each specimen is affixed to the bottom of the wooden box by way of an entomological pin. The paper for the butterflies is cut from envelopes bearing stamps and postmarks from around Great Britain.
The interior of the box includes four small hand-written labels (from top to bottom): Butterflies of Britain; Browns Satyridae; Meadow Brown; Maniola jurtina.
The exterior bottom of the box bears a relief print of a butterfly, printed in brown ink. It is titled, signed, and dated by the artist, in graphite.
BAC: British Art Center copy is a unique copy.
Collection of 24 cut-paper butterflies, pinned out in a glass-top wooden entomological box made by Watkins & Doncaster (of Hawkhurst, Kent, England). -
Subject Terms
Artists' books -- Great Britain. | Butterflies in art. | Paper work -- Great Britain -- Specimens. | Women in natural history.
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Form/Genre
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Export
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IIIF Manifest
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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