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Third anniversary of the first battle of Little Sparta
1986

Medium
card: lithograph printed in green ink on cream card

Measurements
11.5 × 17.7 cm (comp. and 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 4.200

Printing/Publishing
published by Wild Hawthorn Press

Inscription
printed in green ink u.c.-l.c.: THIRD ANNIVERSARY / OF THE FIRST BATTLE OF LITTLE SPARTA / FEBRUARY 4, 1983: / "All wars grow mossy." / COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY / Little Sparta, Dunsyre, Lanark, Scotland
stamped in blue ink on reverse u.c.: FEBRUARY 4 / DAY OF THE FLUTE

Accession Number
2010.187

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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