Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Bush, Tracey
Title:
Button depicting a bird in a hat.
Published / Created:
Alverstoke, England : Tracey Bush, 2018.
Physical Description:
1 button ; 4 cm in diameter
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7433.4.B87 B88b Flat
Yale Center for British Art, acquired with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
In black paperboard box. Lid bears printed images of various beetles.

BAC: British Art Center copy housed with a second button from Bush's series (Sweet lady).

"A handmade badge, an intricate collage of vintage paper and a postage stamp, finished with gold leaf. Presented in a black card box, please specify beetle or flower design when ordering."--www.traceybush.co.uk, accessed August 19, 2019.

The present circular button (or badge) depicts a yellow-breasted bird in a hat, alongside a small child wearing a costume of black and yellow stripes and a hat that resembles an upturned dandelion flower.
Subject Terms:
Beetles. | Birds. | Dandelions. | Hats. | Pin-back buttons -- Specimens. | Women in natural history.
Form/Genre:
Buttons (information artifacts)