[untitled (collected: hermigua-gomera, feuchte N. hang bei quelle 5-12 1978)]
| catalogue number: | hdv 1978.083.5 |
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| date created: | 1978 |
| classification: | mail- & stamp art |
| work type: | postal message |
| medium: | envelope with folded brown paper with dried leave, collected on December 5, 1978 at the source near the northern mountain wall on Hermigua, La Gomera (Canary Islands) - Spain |
| dimensions: | folded paper 22.5 × 16.5 cm envelope 18 × 24.5 cm |
| signature and inscriptions: | dated (postmark) '6.DIC.78' and stamp 'postal message herman de vries' on the front of the envelope signed and annotated 'collected: hermigua-gomera, feuchte N. hang bei quelle 5-12 1978' on the front of the folded brown paper (graphite pencil) |
| edition: | [herman de vries : eschenau 1978] edition 15, numbered 1/15 - 15/15 [but only 7 realized] |
| current repository: | collection herman and susanne de vries private collection, Amsterdam (postal message was sent to Lydia Megert, Bern) private collection, Amsterdam (collection Frans Haks, Uteecht/Groningen) |
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| comment: | the letter to Frans Haks was sent later and has a text by herman de vries 'hartelijke groeten! / herman de vries hermigua 12-12 1978' on the reverse (graphite pencil) and was not part of the 'postal message' series |
| photo/scan: | l-cs |
| rights & reproduction: | herman de vries |