Longing
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)
Date1995
Object NameCard
Mediumcard, ink
ClassificationsPrints
DimensionsPaper Size: 12.7 x 8.6cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017568
About MeFolding card designed by Ian Hamilton Finlay and printed on grey card by the Wild Hawthorn Press. It features the following text: (front)
LONGING
to see
to see if it were
if it were but the smoke
the smoke going up
going up from the houses
the houses
of rocky
Ithaca
Elaborated from a sentence in Andrew
Lang's The Wanderings of Ulysses
(back)
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Wild Hawthorn Press
This card 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.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
c.1987
