The Little Drummer Boy
ArtistDesigned/Sent by
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
Artist
Ron Costley
(Blackburn, England, 1939 - 2015)
Artist
Gary Hincks
(born 1949)
RecipientReceived by
Joyce Laing
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1939 - 2022)
PrinterPrinted by
Wild Hawthorn Press
(founded 1961)
Date1971
Object NameCard
Mediumcard, ink
ClassificationsPrints
DimensionsFolded: 8.4 x 7cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017540
About MeCard designed by Ian Hamilton Finlay, printed by the Wild Hawthorn Press (for the Committee of Public Safety) and folded three times like a concertina. It features a screen print in red and blue of a boat by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ron Costley and Gary Hincks; the name "VIALA" (belonging to the little French drummer boy who, when ordered to call "Vive le Roi" instead called "Vive la Republique") in the same red and blue; and "HOMMAGE A DAVID", which pays tribute to David's original "Death of Viala" (1794). See ABDAG017368.11 (Sue Finlay's notes on this work).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.
