- Museum number
- 2014,7018.78
- Title
- Object: A street cortège
- Description
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Two male figures seen through an arched window; illustration for James Joyce's 'Ulysses', artist's proof. 1988
Lift-ground aquatint and drypoint on Hahnemühle paper
- Production date
- 1988
- Dimensions
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Height: 90 millimetres (image)
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Height: 323 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 125 millimetres
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Width: 255 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Printed at Atelier Crommelynck, Paris. Edition 24 plus 2 artist's proofs (12 with Arabic numerals and a further 12 with Roman numerals contained in the portfolio 'IRELAND A NATION'). Published by Waddington Graphics, London.
Text from Stephen Coppel, 'Imaging Ulysses: Richard Hamilton', London, BM, published by the British Council, 2002, cat.no.87:
Hamilton's title is the ironic journalistic headline in 'Aeolus' that precedes Joyce's cinematic snapshot: 'Both smiled over the crossblind at the file of capering newsboys in Mr Bloom's wake, the last zigzagging white on the breeze a mocking kite, a tail of white bowknots' (U, 125). The preparatory drawing of a scene appropriated from Citizen Kane (see cat.67) was worked up in lift-ground aquatint and drypoint.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1988, Derry, Orchard Gallery, 'Richard Hamilton: Work in Progress on Illustrations for James Joyce's Ulysses', no.60, reprod. p.27
1998, 19 Jul-18 Oct, Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, 'Richard Hamilton: Subject to an Impression', no.48, reprod. p.32
2001, 10 June-16 Sept, Ljubljana, Cankarjev Dom Galerija, 'Imaging Ulysses', no.87
2001-2002, 10 Nov-13 Jan, Tübingen, Kunsthalle Tübingen, 'Imaging Ulysses', no.87
2002, 2 Feb-19 May, London, British Museum, 'Imaging Ulysses', no.87, reprod. p.146
2002, 13 June-15 Sept, Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 'Imaging Ulysses', no.87
2003, 10 May-31 Aug, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 'Imaging Ulysses', no.87
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Ulysses
- Acquisition date
- 2014
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2014,7018.78