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Alternative title
(Illustration for Peter Porter's poem 'When you strike the mantle of the pond...')
Date
1973-1974
Materials used
etching, aquatint
Edition
Artist's set C for edition of 52
Dimensions
60.8 x 42.9 cm platemark; 79.3 x 57.3 cm sheet
Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "Arthur Boyd". Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1989
Location
Not on display
Accession number
13.1989.17
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Arthur Boyd
The unicorn before the emperor II
Shown in 1 exhibition
Exhibition history
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
Referenced in 5 publications
Bibliography
Arthur Boyd: A life, Sydney, 2007, 510, 512.
The art of Arthur Boyd, 'Part III: 1971-1983', pg. 64-86, London, 1986, 70, 71.
Hendrik Kolenberg, Arthur Boyd: 30 paintings 1985-1994, 23 etchings 1993, ''The writer and his muse': Etchings 1993', pg.37-38, Collingwood, 1994.
Hendrik Kolenberg, Arthur Boyd retrospective, 'Works on paper', pg. 160-67, Sydney, 1993, 160 (colour illus.). cat.no. 183
The lady and the unicorn, London, 1975, (illus.). not paginated