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The History of Susanna

Item date(s): 1994

Nicholas Parry
Mary Parry  - (bookbinding by)


Pages: (74pp)
Size: 370mm
Binding: Quarter orange leather on book and box
Technique: Watercolour
Language: English
Inscription: Signed by both artists
Edition: Unique

Sub-type: Private press

Place publication: Market Drayton
Publisher: Tern Press
Cat. 148
Exhibition 1996

Additional notes:
Set apart from the beginning of Daniel because it is not in the Hebrew.

With Christmas card acknowledging the purchase.

The History of Susanna is here written and depicted in a set of watercolours begun on Monday 9th May 1994, and completed on Friday 23rd September 1994 by Nicholas Parry.

Opposite the colophon is a map of the house and garden of Saint Mary's Cottage with indication of where the [74] paintings were made (between Great Hales Street and the River Tern).

Exhibition notes:
Item 148 on Artists' Books in the Ginsberg Collection, with some South African Books from Other Collections.

Johannesburg Art Gallery

25 August to 27 October 1996

Ref: GB/4955















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