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Creator:
Sutton, Emily, 1983- artist.
Title:
Song thrush.
Published/Created:
ca. 2008.
Physical Description:
1 embroidered bird ; 14 x 23 x 8 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Flat B 14b
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nancy and Robert Lindemeyer
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Information
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13263312
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
The work depicts a Song thrush (Turdus philomelos), with brown upperparts and black-spotted yellow and white underparts.
" ... made from painted and embroidered fabric, wrapped wire, glass (eyes) and wood (beak). It is part of an ongoing series of birds that I have been making since 2007 which were inspired by an interest in taxidermy as well as both American and British folk art traditions."--Correspondence from the artist, February 10, 2016.
Subject Terms:
Birds -- Great Britain.
Folk art.
Song thrush.
Taxidermy.
Women in natural history.
Form/Genre:
Embroidery.
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