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Kit
Boyd
Born
1969
Man
on a Laptop (Early Morning)
145 x 208 mm
Etching
and aquatint, 2012. The plate initialled. Signed
in pencil, dated, entitled and numbered 6/50. Printed
in brown ink on cream Somerset wove paper.
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Additional
Information about the Print
Inspired
by Palmer’s 1825 sepia ink and gum arabic
drawing Early Morning (in the Ashmolean), Boyd
imitates the mushroom-shaped tree and the long
evening shadows, but makes changes too. The rabbit
is omitted (but appears in another print) and
replaced by two birds, one with a snail on a
stone. (Palmer has two birds, but beak to beak,
in the foreground of the Ashmolean’s The
Valley with a Bright Cloud, 1925) Instead
of the small half-hidden group of people beneath
the tree, a single figure sits at work on his
laptop computer.
The
introductory text to the Samuel
Palmer Legacy exhibition includes further
information about Kit
Boyd.
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