Cromarty bookplate for Iain Bain, 1980

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Wood-engraving, 160 x 127mm (block 107 x 73mm). Edition limited to 80 numbered copies signed and dated by the artist. Iain Bain commissioned bookplates from Reynolds Stone, Richard Shirley Smith and Michael Harvey. This, his first commission from Shirley Smith, sought to commemorate his Scottish roots. "What I'd very much like," he wrote to the artist in March 1979, "is a lan[d]scape view of Cromarty, my native heath, framed by windblown trees, with a foreground rock to carry my name . . . If you could add a topsail schooner in the bay (my people were mariners out of C for . . . generations), & a sense of breeze & flying cloud . . ." In 1994 Bain published with Silent Books The Wood Engravings of Richard Shirley Smith, a selection with a "complete catalogue" of engravings, 1960-89. His bookplate appears as no. 247. N° de ref. del artículo 7XM200017b

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