A Valentine - Acknowledgments to Fishing News
ArtistDesigned/Sent by
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
RecipientReceived by
Joyce Laing
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1939 - 2022)
PublisherPublished by
Wild Hawthorn Press
(founded 1961)
Date1997
Object NameFolding Card
Mediumcard, ink
ClassificationsPrints
DimensionsFolded: 2.2 x 20.6cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017610
About MeValentines card designed by Ian Hamilton Finlay and published by the Wild Hawthorn Press. The front depicts the specifications and registration details of two trawlers and a seiner.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.
