Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Morpeth, Sarah
Title:
[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 Manuscripts
N7433.4.M675 B44 2015 Flat A
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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.
Contributors:
Marvell, Andrew, 1621–1678. Garden.