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The Star Spangled Burning Bush II (Words from Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 1865)
Calligrapher: Halliday, Peter
Artist's Statement: The 'Burning Bush' lighting up the words of Abraham Lincoln's second Inaugural Address delivered in March 1865. Noble words with which I make an iroinic comparision with those of George W Bush in his State of the Union Address in 2003, as I used in Burning Bush I. Watercolour, gold and paladium leaf on Canson Mi-Teintes pastel paper.
Given by Peter Halliday
Height: 570 mm
Width: 260 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given by Halliday, Peter
Production date: AD 2003
Watercolour
Gold leaf
Paladium leaf
Support
composed of
paper
( Canson Mi Teintes; pastel)
Decoration
Accession number: CAL 9-2007
Primary reference Number: 167373
Old object number: Calligraphy/Halliday/2
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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Accession Number: P.1-1989
Accession Number: C.1709-1928
Accession Number: P.9626-R
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