Fragments : twelve etchings

Norman Ackroyd RA

RA Collection: Book

Record number

21/78

Author

Imprint

[London]: [Norman Ackroyd RA], 2018

Physical Description

[4] p., [12] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations, 1 map ; 26 x 31 cm.

General Note

12 prints : aquatints ; plate marks 14 x 22 cm, on sheets 23 x 28 cm, in box 26 x 31 cm.
"The etchings are printed by Neil Woodall in Yorkshire from copper plates etched by the artist. The paper is 280gsm Somerset rag paper from St. Cuthbert’s Mill, Somerset, England. The solander box is built by Smith-Settle in Yorkshire. Typography and letterpress by Niamh Clancy. © Norman Ackroyd 2018." [colophon].
The 12 etchings are interleaved with poems and songs selected by Ackroyd, the latter printed on sheets of translucent Japanese paper.

Contents

Etchings: 1. The Anvil -- 2. Sula and Rain -- 3. Butt of Lewis -- 4. The Atlantic from Flannan -- 5. Soay Sound -- 6. Mina Stack -- 7. The Sea of the Hebrides -- 8. Benbulben -- 9. Puffin Island -- 10. Little Skellig -- 11. Stour Estuary -- 12. Hambleton Hills. and Poems: [1] Lycidas / Milton -- [2] Directions for a map / Alistair Reid -- [3] No face, no name, no number / Steve Winwood -- [4] The people before / Douglas Dunn -- [5] Soay sound / Lawrence Sail -- [6] Poem in October / Dylan Thomas -- [7] Helpless / Neil Young -- [8] Field guide / Andrew McNeillie -- [9] Postscript / Seamus Heaney -- [10] Bagpipe music / Louis MacNeice -- [11] America / Paul Simon -- [12] A Shropshire lad / A.E. Housman.

Copy Note

The twelve etchings are published in editions of 90 with 2 exhibition proofs and 2 printer’s proofs. Numbers 1-50 and the proofs are collated into boxed sets of which this is No. 13. Numbered and signed in pencil by the artist on the colophon. Each plate is also titled, numbered (13/90) and singed by the artist.

Binding Note

Housed in a black solander box lettered in gilt on the spine: "Fragments. Norman Ackroyd. 2018." Deckle-edged paper.

Subject

Livres d'artistes
Artists' books
Aquatints

Contributors

Norman Ackroyd RA, artist/designer, etcher, publisher
Neil Woodall, printer
Niamh Clancy, letterpress printer, typographer
Smith Settle, binder
St Cuthberts Mill, paper manufacturer