The Desmoulins Connection
1988
Medium
folded card: lithograph on yellow card
Measurements
3.8 × 8.7 cm (comp.) 4.5 × 10.0 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 4.285
Printing/Publishing
published by Wild Hawthorn Press
Inscription
printed in ink on upper cover: THE DESMOULINS CONNECTION / "If they had to choose between betraying their / country and betraying their cronies, they'd / betray their country." - Saint-Just Vigilante, on / The national Trust for Scotland, during the / Follies War. (See E.M. Forster.) / Committee of Public Safety, Little Sparta, Dunsyre, Lanark, Scotland
Accession Number
2010.198
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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