When man obeys without being presumed good...
1983
from Saint-Just Posters 1983
Medium
lithograph printed in black and red ink
Measurements
15.5 × 27.7 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
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: WHEN MAN OBEYS / WITHOUT BEING PRESUMED GOOD / THERE IS NEITHER LIBERTY / NOR A NATIVE LAND / LOUIS-ANTOINE SAINT-JUST 1767-1795
printed in red ink: DEATHER TO STRATHCLYDE REGION
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.r.c.: 1983
Accession Number
2010.167.4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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