From 'Clerihews for Liberals'
ArtistDesigned by
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
PrinterPrinted by
Wild Hawthorn Press
(founded 1961)
Date1987
Object NameCard
Mediumcard, ink
ClassificationsPrints
DimensionsPaper Size: 13.5 x 14.2cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017478
About MeCard designed by Ian Hamilton Finlay and printed by the Wild Hawthorn Press. It dates to 1987 and depicts a line drawing of a gallows in red ink above the following poem, entitled "From 'Clerihews for Liberals'":The French Revolution
Scorned circumlocution.
'It depends what you mean'
Meant Madame Guillotine.
The card purports to have been issued by the Committee for Public Safety, Little Sparta.
This work is part of an archive that belonged to Joyce Laing, OBE. The artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, was a personal friend and sent her an example of each new poem print and multiple as it was made.
18th Century
