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The garden is open

The garden is open
 1987

Medium
card: lithograph in black ink
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
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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
card: lithograph in black ink
Measurements
7.8 × 11.9 cm (comp.) 9.0 × 12.7 cm (sheet)
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Murray, Mooney & Finlay 4.256
Printing/Publishing
published by Wild Hawthorn Press
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: THE GARDEN / IS / OPEN
printed in ink on reverse l.c.: the garden is open to members of The National Trust, / who should apply in writing to Mr Sanson, care of / The Committee of General Security, Little Sparta, / Dunsyre, Lanark, Scotland.
Accession Number
2010.201
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

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