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Freedom of speech is not freedom to speak...
1983
from Ian Hamilton Finlay Posters 1983

Medium
lithograph printed in black and red ink

Measurements
13.0 × 23.1 cm (comp.) 20.8 × 29.8 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: FREEDOM OF SPEECH / IS NOT FREEDOM TO SPEAK / IT IS THE FREEDOM / TO DISCUSS
printed in 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
2010.168.3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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