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Sleeps With The Fishes

Record Sleeve
1987 (published)
Artist/Maker
23 Envelope (design agency)
Beggars Group, Beggars Banquet Records (4AD) (publisher)
Oliver, Vaughan (art director)
Gierson, Nigel (photographer)
Bigg, Christopher (calligrapher)
Place of origin
Great Britain (published)

Card cover sleeve for the 12" long-playing record 'Sleeps With The Fishes' recorded by Pieter Nooten and Michael Brook for 4AD.

Both sides of the sleeve are black. The front features some stylised calligraphy in red and yellow(?) within a fine white line border. The back features a grainy black and white photographic image that appears to show a human figure with a series of circles.

Object details

Categories
ELISE
Labels & Packaging
Music
Object type
Record Sleeve
TitleSleeps With The Fishes
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph on card
Card
Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description
Cover sleeve for the 12" long-playing record 'Sleeps With The Fishes' recorded by Pieter Nooten and Michael Brook. Designed by 23 Envelope, with photography by Nigel Gierson. Published by 4AD, Great Britain, 1987.
Physical description
Card cover sleeve for the 12" long-playing record 'Sleeps With The Fishes' recorded by Pieter Nooten and Michael Brook for 4AD.

Both sides of the sleeve are black. The front features some stylised calligraphy in red and yellow(?) within a fine white line border. The back features a grainy black and white photographic image that appears to show a human figure with a series of circles.
Dimensions
  • Height: 31.5cm
  • Width: 31.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'PIETER NOOTEN MICHAEL BROOK' (Lettered in white across top of front cover.)
  • 'PIETER NOOTEN MICHAEL BROOK SLEEPS WITH THE FISHES CAD 710' (Lettered in white along spine.)
  • Lettered on the back of the sleeve with 'SLEEPS WITH THE FISHES' in white and 'CAD 710' in gold, with the 4AD logo in gold in the centre of the bottom-edge.
Subjects depicted
Calligraphy
Figures (Representations)
Associated objects
Other number
CAD 710 - Record label's number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.275-1989

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Record createdFebruary 10, 2000
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O22936/sleeps-with-the-fishes-record-sleeve-oliver-vaughan/
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