Very Like A Whale

Butler, Angie

Abstract

For the 200th anniversary of Herman Melville’s birth (1819), the Bodleian’s Bibliographical Press invited letterpress printers and artists to claim one of the eighty prefatory “Extracts” from Moby-Dick (1851) and create an artwork in response.

Extract No. 38. ‘If you should write a fable for little fishes, you would make them speak like great whales.’ – Goldsmith to Johnson. // Angie Butler, ABPress. Letterpress and pochoir printed on 280gsm (size: 21″ x 15″; 53.5 x 38 cms); Somerset Newsprint Grey. Caslon 72pt wood-letter. Printed on a Vandercook No. 4

• Exhibition Performance Type: Exhibition
• Start Date: Oct 1, 2019
• End Date: Jan 31, 2020
• Deposit Date: Nov 19, 2024
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/13446031
• External URL: http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/theconveyor/extracts-supplied-by-a-sub-sub-librarian-the-melville-bicentenary-commemoration-printing-call/