Virginia Creeper Parthenocissus Quinquefolio (L.) Planch.
Item date(s): 2009
Mary Taylor
- (book artist) Charles Dickens
- (text by)
Pages: unpaged Size: 175mm, oblong Inscription: Signed by the artist Edition: Unique
Place publication: Marshfield, MA Publisher: Artists Book
Additional notes: And The Ivy Green by Charles Dickens.
The book is housed in aspecially made brown wooden box with a sliding cover. With the colophon with print on the back of the box (193 x 258mm).
Bound by the artist: concertina style with text and 11 Akua monoprints on the front side and drawings made with woodless colored pencils around outlines made from rubbings of leaves on the reverse. Sheer ivory fabric with stitched decorative design sewn to the front cover and back page of the book.
The monoprints were made with Virginia Creeper vines and are printed in shades of pink, russet and green going to white, almost transparent, images on the last two pages, all on yellow-rose grounds. The beautiful colors are repeated as original drawings on the verso