La Dame aux Belles Plumes
Design
1986-1987 (made)
1986-1987 (made)
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General Description: Photo montage with verse and collage, showing photograph of the artist with chickens, print of 19th century photograph showing woman with chickens, and print of photograph showing surreal bird. Wool sample attached with tape. 1986-7.
Photo montage with verse and collage, showing photograph of the artist with chickens, print of 19th century photograph showing woman with chickens, and print of photograph showing surreal bird. Wool sample attached with tape.
Inscription Content: Inscribed in pencil don't count your chickens - bet one you leap - in one basket you can't tell a book by counting your chickens. - until you can make a silk purse. "you can't tell a hen by looking at her feathers" - before the bridge is crossed. every hen has a silver lining cock-a-doodle don't people who live in hallbankgate shouldn't throw cats. you can't make a silk purse out of a basket of chickens. before theyre hatched a chicken in the hand fine feathers dont make a hen how many hens make five La belle dame sans plumes La dame aux belles plumes
Photo montage with verse and collage, showing photograph of the artist with chickens, print of 19th century photograph showing woman with chickens, and print of photograph showing surreal bird. Wool sample attached with tape.
Inscription Content: Inscribed in pencil don't count your chickens - bet one you leap - in one basket you can't tell a book by counting your chickens. - until you can make a silk purse. "you can't tell a hen by looking at her feathers" - before the bridge is crossed. every hen has a silver lining cock-a-doodle don't people who live in hallbankgate shouldn't throw cats. you can't make a silk purse out of a basket of chickens. before theyre hatched a chicken in the hand fine feathers dont make a hen how many hens make five La belle dame sans plumes La dame aux belles plumes
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | collage of photographs |
| Brief description | Lynne Curran; La Dame aux Belles Plumes. 38 designs (on 10 sheets), collage designs and sketches for a tapestry. 1986-7 |
| Physical description | General Description: Photo montage with verse and collage, showing photograph of the artist with chickens, print of 19th century photograph showing woman with chickens, and print of photograph showing surreal bird. Wool sample attached with tape. 1986-7. Photo montage with verse and collage, showing photograph of the artist with chickens, print of 19th century photograph showing woman with chickens, and print of photograph showing surreal bird. Wool sample attached with tape. Inscription Content: Inscribed in pencil don't count your chickens - bet one you leap - in one basket you can't tell a book by counting your chickens. - until you can make a silk purse. "you can't tell a hen by looking at her feathers" - before the bridge is crossed. every hen has a silver lining cock-a-doodle don't people who live in hallbankgate shouldn't throw cats. you can't make a silk purse out of a basket of chickens. before theyre hatched a chicken in the hand fine feathers dont make a hen how many hens make five La belle dame sans plumes La dame aux belles plumes |
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| Accession number | E.504-1988 |
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| Record created | November 24, 2008 |
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