2 Prospects
Artist
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
Artist
Ian Gardner
(Lancaster, England, 1944 - 2019)
PublisherPublished by
New Arcadian Press
(Leeds)
Date1984
Object NameBook
Mediumcard, ink
ClassificationsPrints
DimensionsFolded: 8 x 10.5 x 0.2cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017562
About MeWhite folded card with prints on each facing page: two side-view elevations and two equivalence equations. Quotes by Horace Walpole and John James (after A. J. Dezallier d'Argenville) are printed on the reverse. Missing components of this artist's book are: one sepia postcard of The Temple of Apollo at Little Sparta and a green envelope in which all components were originally presented. Published in Leeds by the New Arcadian Press, 1984.This book is part of an archive that belonged to Joyce Laing, OBE. The artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, was a personal friend.
