Terror is the piety of the Revolution
1983
from Ian Hamilton Finlay Posters 1983
Medium
lithograph printed in black and red ink
Measurements
9.0 × 23.1 cm (comp.) 20.8 × 29.7 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 5.82
Printing/Publishing
published by Wild Hawthorn Press
Inscription
printed in red ink: TERROR IS THE PIETY / OF THE REVOLUTION
printed in black ink: IAN HAMILTON FINLAY: DETACHED SENTENCES ON REVOLUTION / THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY: LITTLE SPARTA
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.r.c.: 1983
Accession Number
2010.168.2
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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