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Patmos and the War at Sea

Item date(s): 2011

Alastair Whitton - (book artist)

Pages: unpaged
Size: 228mm
Binding: Wooden slipcase - black
Technique: Polymer gravure; Laser-cut Braille
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: AP I/II

Type: Accordion fold
Sub-type: Photo book

Place publication: Cape Town
Publisher: The artist
Cat. 251-C8 ZA
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
Medium: Polymer gravure and laser-cut Braille.

Paper: 300gsm Rives BFK cotton rag.

Edition: 5 + 2 Artist's Proofs.

Printer: Warren Editions, Cape Town.

Photography Consultant: Damon Hyland.

Dimensions: 210 x 215mm (closed book) / 200 x 1400mm (concertina fold out).

Separate sheet with colophon and description.

The artist's proofs are housed in a black polymer slipcase with laser-cut title on spine and Braille on cover, unlike the regular edition in the museum display case.

6 plate Polymer gravure on 300gsm BFK Rives cotton rag with laser-cut Braille contained in an engraved, aluminum clad wooden box lined with 250gsm Black Somerset cotton rag envelope and housed in an imbuia hardwood museum display case.

Medium: Polymer gravure and Braille

Measurements: 215 x 210mm (closed) / 215 x 1610mm (open)

Reference note:
6 plate Polymer gravure on 300gsm BFK Rives cotton rag with laser-cut Braille contained in an engraved, aluminium clad wooden box lined with 250gsm Black Somerset cotton rag envelope and housed in an imbuia hardwood museum display case.

Exhibition notes:
Item 0251 - C8 ZA on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection. UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg. 25 March to 5 May 2017

Faces, Spaces and Tenuous Places

JBCBA, WAM

6 February – 13 May 2024

Ref: GB/13362