Sleeps With The Fishes

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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.

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Categories	ELISE Labels & Packaging Music
Object type	Record Sleeve
Title	Sleeps 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	E.276-1989 (Set) E.277-1989 (Set)
Other number	CAD 710 - Record label's number
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.275-1989

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

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