"Cruel and ingenious sophists..."
ArtistDesigned/Sent by
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
RecipientReceived by
Joyce Laing
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1939 - 2022)
PrinterPrinted by
Wild Hawthorn Press
(founded 1961)
Datec.1988
Object NameCard
Mediumcard, ink
ClassificationsPrints
Dimensions10.3 x 14.2cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017512
About MeCard designed by Ian Hamilton Finlay and printed on one side (like a postcard) by the Wild Hawthorn Press. It features the following text enclosed within a red linear border: "Cruel and ingenious sophists, it is in vain that you attack by charlatanism and court intrigues a Revolution of which you are unworthy; you will be carried away like insects in its on-rush; your success will be as fleeting as lies and your shame as immortal as truth."
- Robespierre to Catherine Millet and Jonathan Hirschfeld, Occupied Paris, 1988.
Committee of Public Safety, Little Sparta, Dunsyre, Lanark, Scotland.
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.
1914-1918
1905-1914
