Morpeth, Sarah, [Bee book], [2015]
- Title(s):
- [Bee book].
- Published/Created:
- [Elsdon, Northumberland] : [Sarah Morpeth], [2015]
- Physical Description:
- 1 cut-paper work ; 17 x 19 x 9 cm (opened)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsN7433.4.M675 B44 2015 Flat AYale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art FundView by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12470081
- Classification:
- Three-Dimensional Artifacts
- Notes:
- Three dimensional paper sculpture.
Title supplied by artist.
Issued in a limited edition of 100 copies.
Small volume with eight cut-paper panels, depicting plants. The panels integrate words from Andrew Marvell's poem 'The Garden'. Emerging from the panels, on small metal wires, are five cut-paper silhouettes of bees, which bear the Latin names of bumble bees.
Within boards covered in green cloth; the inner panels also bear text from Marvell. Issued in small white box.
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 6 of 100; signed, dated, and numbered in graphite, by the artist. - Subject Terms:
- Artists' books -- Great Britain.Bees -- Pictorial works.Townfoot Studio -- Publisher.Women in natural history.
- Form/Genre:
- Artists' books -- Great Britain.
Cut-paper works.
Toy and movable books. - Export:
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