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Dear Diary

Print
1998 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The Italian-born, London-based artist Sara Fanelli is a well-established illustrator. She has won and been nominated for several illustration awards, including the V&A Illustration Award. She creates prints, book illustrations and collages.

This etching is an example of Fanelli’s creative process; she developed an idea for her book Dear Diary from this piece. This etching shows her dog Bubu, a leaping girl and etched heart symbols. A poem written by her grandmother in her handwriting appears on the left hand side. This print not only shows the artist’s ideas in process, but is also a delightful image in its own right, bringing mind a school-girl’s notepad with personal doodles and drawings.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleDear Diary (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Etching on paper
Brief description
'Dear Diary', Sara Fanelli, etching, British, 1998
Physical description
A print on red-lined paper, with writing on the bottom left hand corner. A figure of a dog on the left, with a girl on the right.
Dimensions
  • Paper size height: 29.3cm
  • Paper size width: 38.7cm
  • Image size height: 25.4cm
  • Image size width: 33.8cm
Credit line
Purchased through the Julie and Robert Breckman Print Fund
Subjects depicted
Summary
The Italian-born, London-based artist Sara Fanelli is a well-established illustrator. She has won and been nominated for several illustration awards, including the V&A Illustration Award. She creates prints, book illustrations and collages.

This etching is an example of Fanelli’s creative process; she developed an idea for her book Dear Diary from this piece. This etching shows her dog Bubu, a leaping girl and etched heart symbols. A poem written by her grandmother in her handwriting appears on the left hand side. This print not only shows the artist’s ideas in process, but is also a delightful image in its own right, bringing mind a school-girl’s notepad with personal doodles and drawings.
Collection
Accession number
E.346-2003

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Record createdSeptember 29, 2004
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