Accession Code: wu0684 Title: Duck Date completed: 1994 Medium: Prints Material: Silkscreen Height (mm): 404 Width (mm): 304 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: Signed and numbered 14/80. Stamped BS Location Name: Social Sciences Location Description: Sociology Location Floor: 0

This screenprint is from a set of nine prints published in 1994 by the Byam Shaw School of Art to raise funds for its student scholarship and bursary fund. The participants generously donated their work and the portfolio was printed in an edition of eighty. The artists were asked to contribute an image reflecting one of the birds of London. The purpose was not to produce an ornithological record but to provide a unifying theme through which the individual temperaments and styles of this group of distinguished artists could be expressed.

The portfolio was purchased for the University by the Friends of the Mead.

Patrick Caulfield chose the duck for his contribution to the London Birds series; this ubiquitous feature of London parks is perfect for his pared-down graphic style which seeks to project the essence of familiar things.