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Print made by Simon Brett, born 1943, British, Ordnance Survey, 1995
- Title:
Ordnance Survey
- Date:
- 1995
- Medium:
- Wood-engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Frame: 21 1/2 × 21 7/8 × 1 1/2 inches (54.6 × 55.6 × 3.8 cm), Sheet: 14 1/4 × 15 inches (36.2 × 38.1 cm), Image: 8 × 10 inches (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "Ordnance Survey 15/60"
Watermark: H4
Lettered center left: "SAVERNAKE FOREST | 19 AUGUST 1987"; lower left: "HUNGERFORD 19 AUGUST 1987"; lower right: "a man in black has shot my mummy"; lettered extensively with global place-names including: "Oudenard | Sarajevo | Calvary | Kosovo | Carthage | Guernica | Budapest | The Somme | Ravensbruck | Auschwitz | Oklahoma City | Alabama | Wounded Knee | Gettysburg | Kent State | Hiroshima | Nagasaki | Belfast | Enniskillen"
Signed in graphite, lower right: "Simon Brett"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Christine Higgott and Peter Ford
- Copyright Status:
- © The Artist
- Accession Number:
- B2020.4.1
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- abstract art | architectural subject | barbed wire | cartographic material | cities | firearms | garden | houses | man | map | shovel | spears | violence | weapons | words
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:81798
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Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
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