Reading the landscape / Norman Ackroyd.

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Ackroyd, Norman, 1938-, Reading the landscape , [2019]

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Creator:: Ackroyd, Norman, 1938–
Title(s):: Reading the landscape / Norman Ackroyd.
Physical Description:: 12 prints : aquatints ; plate marks 15 x 22 cm, on sheets 23 x 28 cm, in box 26 x 31 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2021 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist in memory of Jason Bacon, Yale BA 1956
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15781923
Classification:: Prints
Notes:: Title, contents, and colophon from printed sheet (folded twice) accompanying the portfolio of prints.
"The twelve etchings are published in editions of 90 with 2 exhibition proofs and 2 printers' proofs. Numbers 1-50 and the proofs are collated into boxed sets ... The etchings are printed by Neil Woodall in Yorkshire from copper plates etched by the artist. The paper is 280 gsm Somerset rag from St. Cuthbert's Mill, Somerset, England. The solander box is built by Smith-Settle in Yorkshire. Typography and letterpress by Niamh Clancy."--Colophon.
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 31 of 50. Each etching is titled, numbered ("31/90"), signed, and dated by Ackroyd, in graphite. In original cloth-covered box.
The 12 etchings are interleaved with selected verse, the latter printed on sheets of translucent Japanese paper.
Subject Terms:: British Isles.
Coasts -- British Isles.
Islands -- British Isles.
Form/Genre:: Aquatints.
Maps.
Poetry.
Contributors:: Woodall, Neil, printer.
Clancy, Niamh, typographer.
Barnes, William, 1801–1886.
Dunn, Douglas.
Dylan, Bob, 1941–
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888–1965.
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926–1997.
Gray, Thomas, 1716–1771.
Keats, John, 1795–1821.
Larkin, Philip.
Nash, Johnny.
Pound, Ezra, 1885–1972.
Thomas, Dylan, 1914–1953.
Thompson, Francis, 1859–1907.
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Etchings: 1. Sun and storm, Caithness
2. Black Rock, Co. Mayo
3. High Island
4. Cathedral Rocks, Blasket
5. Blue Cove, Skellig
6. At Antony
7. The Gower in Twilight
8. The Lake at Ditchley
9. Hood Hill
10. Under Hambleton
11. Evening at Thirsk Hall
12. Wharfedale in February.
Verse: [1] I can see clearly now / Johnny Nash
[2] Poem in October / Dylan Thomas
[3] Tay Bridge / Douglas Dunn
[4] The Whitsun Weddings / Philip Larkin
[5] On Burroughs' Work / Allen Ginsberg
[6] My Orcha'd in Linden Lea / William Barnes
[7] On a Night Like This / Bob Dylan
[8] La Belle Dame sans Merci / John Keats
[9] And the Days are Not Full Enough / Ezra Pound
[10] The Waste Land / T.S. Eliot
[11] Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard / Thomas Gray
[12] At Lords / Frances [sic] Thompson.

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