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An album of leaves

Susan PURDY
An album of leaves
 2000

Medium
album: 12 gelatin silver photographs, coloured inks, eighteen pages, gold leaf and lacquer cover, brass hinges, glued and stitched binding

Measurements
29.7 × 21.0 cm (page) 39.7 × 29.8 × 2.8 cm (closed) 69.6 × 29.8 × 4.0 cm (open)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 2000
© Susan Leigh Purdy/Copyright Agency, 2023

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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Inscription
printed in green ink on title page c.: AN ALBUM OF LEAVES (underlined) / SUSM PURDY / JUNE 2000 / TWELVE LEAVES IN OEDER OF APPEARANCE (underlined) / Large Fig Leaf / Ginko Biloba Leaf / Temple Grass / Fig Leaf / Variegated Canna Lily Leaf / Unknown Leaf / Nasturham Leaf / Arum Halicum / Opopanax (Balm of Gilead Poplar) /Equiseum Stems / Cos Lettuce Leaf / Continus Leaf (Smoke Bush)

Accession Number
2000.191

Department
Australian Photography

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest

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