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Long laws are public calamities

Ian Hamilton FINLAY
Long laws are public calamities
 1983
from Saint-Just Posters 1983

Medium
lithograph printed in black and red ink

Measurements
12.5 × 27.3 cm (comp.) 20.8 × 29.5 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Grazia Gunn through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2010
© By courtesy of the Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Murray, Mooney & Finlay 5.81

Printing/Publishing
published by Wild Hawthorn Press

Inscription
printed in ink: LONG LAWS ARE / PUBLIC CALAMITIES / LOUIS-ANTOINE SAINT-JUST 1767-1794
printed in red ink: DEATH TO STRATHCLYDE REGION
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.r.c.: 1983

Accession Number
2010.167.2

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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