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The Mastless Barges (2)
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The Mastless Barges (2)

Artist (Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
Date1995
Mediumprinted ink on card
ClassificationsPrints
Dimensions10.5 x 8.5cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017321
About MeThis work is part of an archive that belonged to Joyce Laing OBE. The artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, was a personal friend of the donor and sent her an example of each new poem print and multiple as it was made.

The Mastless Barges* (2)

As they slip up the Torridge to Bideford
on the calm of a summer's evening, their
two or three men seem to walk
on the half mile wide stretch of water and
there are only the little islands of hatchways
and the tall thin stove-pipe exhaust shooting
to show where there is a barge

*See Basil Greenhill, Sailing for a Living, page 54

Ian Hamilton Finlay/Wild Hawthorn Press
http://www.ianhamiltonfinlay.com/1995.html