- Title:
- Waiting for the Sheep Show
- Object name(s):
- Prints; Five sheep seated on the ground wearing covers
- Brief description:
- Five sheep seated on the ground wearing covers in preparation for an agricultural show. The sheep lie on a bed of hay wearing covers which include cutouts for their mouths, eyes and ears
- Collection:
- Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery
- Acquisition date:
- 2004
- Acquisition method:
- Purchase
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension value:
- 177
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension value:
- 118
- Inscription content:
- (pencil, lower left margin) Waiting for the Sheep Show, (pencil, lower centre margin) 11/80, (pencil, lower right margin) Rorer [artist's signature]
- Material:
- Wood engraving in black on white wove paper
- Object name:
- Prints; Five sheep seated on the ground wearing covers
- Object number:
- PR2862
- Object production date:
- 2000
- Date - association:
- C
- Date - earliest / single:
- 2000
- Date - latest:
- 2004
- Object production person:
- Abigail Rorer
- Person's association:
- Artist/Maker
- Person's biographical note:
- Printmaker. Studied at Rhode Island School of Design, 1971. Rorer is the founder and proprietor of The Lone Oak Press in Petersham, Massachusetts, established in 1989. She has published limited edition books, broadsides and fine-press and also illustrates for other publishers. Rorer\'s work is held in private collections, libraries and museums around the world
- Person's birth date:
- 1949
- Person's forenames:
- Abigail
- Person's place of birth:
- USA, Pennsylvania, Norristown
- Person's surname:
- Rorer
- Object production place:
- UK
- Owner:
- Society of Wood Engravers Exhibition, School of Art Gallery, Aberystwyth
- Organisation's association:
- Object source
- Responsible department/section:
- Prints
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8684a5e6-2bdb-31bb-9c46-a441a6fc7f0c
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8684a5e6-2bdb-31bb-9c46-a441a6fc7f0c, Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery, CC BY-NC
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