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Title(s):
Bluebird : letterpress printed hand-coloured badge.
Published/Created:
[Lincoln, England] : ABPress : The Caseroom Press, [2014]
Physical Description:
1 button ; 25 mm in diameter, mounted on card 60 x 90 mm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7433.4.B88 B58 2014
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
By Angie Butler & Philippa Wood.
Place and date of publication from description provided by the artists.
"Letterpress printed and hand coloured (with watercolour paint) onto a newsprint paper using a vintage print block from our collection (acquired from printmaker John Richardson) on a Farley Proof Press at The Caseroom Press, University of Lincoln, UK. The badge is sewn, with linen book binding thread onto a traditional printer's blue decorative edged business card and the words 'BLUEBIRD letterpress printed hand-coloured badge' are rubber stamped to the right of the badge. On the reverse of the card is rubber stamped ABPress & The Caseroom Press."--Artist's statement.
Subject Terms:
ABPress -- Publisher.
Birds -- Pictorial works.
Caseroom Press -- Publisher.
Pin-back buttons -- Specimens.
Rubber stamp art.
Form/Genre:
Buttons (information artifacts)
Contributors:
Butler, Angie, book artist.
Wood, Philippa, book artist.
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