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Let Them Buy Flags
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Let Them Buy Flags

Associated (Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
Date1989
Object NameMagazine Article
Mediumpaper, ink
ClassificationsMemorabilia
DimensionsPaper Size: 28.6 x 22.6cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017170.28
About MeMagazine article relating to the sale of a flag associated with the sans-culottes of Sainte Anne, a peasant batallion of French revolutionaries who mobilised after the fall of the Bastille in 1789 to spport the new-bown Republic. Ian Hamilton Finlay was interested in the history of the sans-culottes; indeed, he made at least one work to commemorate them (see ABDAG017220 and ABDAG017476).

This magazine article is part of an archive that belonged to Joyce Laing, OBE. The artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, was a personal friend.