My Garden from Weeding Height
Paper Peepshow
[1993] (published)
[1993] (published)
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Opulent vegetation bursts out of this garden inspired paper peepshow. Housed within book-type covers, which are bound in a green and white, floral patterned print, which was originally a chicken-feed sack.
Object details
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| Title | My Garden from Weeding Height (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | paper, cotton, |
| Brief description | Accordion-folding peepshow of garden vegetation, mounted within a book. Expands to approximately 22 cm. |
| Physical description | Accordion-folding peepshow mounted within a book. Offset litho. Contains five cut-out panels. Front panel: plants, purple flowers Panel 1: cut-out vegetation. Panel 2: cut-out vegetation. Panel 3: plants with blue flowers. Panel 4: plants with pink flowers. Panel 5: cut-out vegetation. Back panel: plants against a yellow background, attached to book-type cover which is wrapped in a green, floral patterned, chicken-feed sack. There are 5 cut-out paper insects glued to the back and front covers. |
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| Credit line | Accepted under the Cultural Gifts Scheme by HM Government from the collections of Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner and allocated to the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2016. |
| Object history | This is no. 22 of an edition of 25. Part of the Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner Collection, collected over 30 years and given to the V&A Museum through the government's Cultural Gift Scheme in 2016. |
| Summary | Opulent vegetation bursts out of this garden inspired paper peepshow. Housed within book-type covers, which are bound in a green and white, floral patterned print, which was originally a chicken-feed sack. |
| Bibliographic reference | R. Hyde, Paper Peepshows. The Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner Collection (Woodbridge: The Antique Collectors' Club, 2015), cat. 340. |
| Other number | 2014554 - Previous number |
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| Library number | Gestetner 340 |
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| Record created | December 2, 2016 |
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