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Furthest lands : ten etchings from the edge of the British Isles
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Furthest lands : ten etchings from the edge of the British Isles.
Published
London : Norman Ackroyd, 2005.
Physical Description
1 v. : ill., map ; 29 x 41 cm.
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 10 of 90, signed by the artist. Each plate is also titled, numbered, and signed by the artist.
Notes
"The ten etchings are published in editions of 90, with 2 exhibition proofs, 2 printers' proofs, and 3 artist's proofs. Numbers 1-45 and the proofs are collated into boxed sets ... Printed by Neil Woodall in Yorkshire and Jason Hicklin in London from copper plates etched by the artist. The paper is 280gsm Somerset rag from St. Cuthbert's Mill, Somerset, England. The Solander Box is built by Smith-Settle in Otley, Yorkshire. Typography by Hope O'Neil."--Colophon.
Unbound. The preliminary material includes a folder with reprint of a passage from Boswell's "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides" (1773), along with a contemporary map of the British Isles.
Result of the artist's visits to Shetland, the Skelligs, the east coast of East Anglia, and the Isles of Scilly.
Cover title.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 16, 2010
Contents
From Herma Ness
Bressay Daybreak
Dun Caan, Raasay's Cap
Rhum from Skye
From Farne Islands
Cromwell's Castle, Inishbofin
Holkham Park from Scolt Island
The North Sea at Dunwich
Skellig Revisited
Bishop's Rock.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Artists' books - Great Britain.
Aquatints - 2005.
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