- Title:
- Wildflower
- Brief description:
- printed card
- Collection:
- Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums
- Accession date:
- 21/01/2010
- Acquisition method:
- Gift
- Associated concept:
- Prints
- Associated date:
- 1992
- Associated person:
- Ian Hamilton Finlay
- Credit line:
- Presented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
- Current location:
- View by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
- Dimension:
- 8.5 x 11.5cm
- Inscription content:
- recto: Wildflower,n. verso: Representing Nature, the opposite to all that is artificial, the wildflower is a 'text' which can be moralising, or ideological, or indeed subversive. We only think of the role of Nature (and of wildflowers) in the French Revolution and the writings of Rousseau, which preceded it. (signature) Ian Hamilton Finlay Gary Hincks Wild Hawthorn Press
- Inscription position:
- recto and verso
- Inscription type:
- text
- Material:
- printed ink on card
- Object number:
- ABDAG017181
- Object production date:
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1992
- Date - latest:
- 1992
- Object status:
- Accessioned object
- Responsible department/section:
- Fine Art
- Right type:
- © Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
- Text:
- This work is part of an archive that belonged to Joyce Laing OBE. The artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, was a personal friend and sent her an example of each new poem print and multiple as it was made. recto: Wildflower,n. verso: Representing Nature, the opposite to all that is artificial, the wildflower is a 'text' which can be moralising, or ideological, or indeed subversive. We only think of the role of Nature (and of wildflowers) in the French Revolution and the writings of Rousseau, which preceded it. (signature) Ian Hamilton Finlay Gary Hincks Wild Hawthorn Press http://www.ianhamiltonfinlay.com/1992.html
- Text reference number:
- https://emuseum.aberdeencity.gov.uk/objects/118880
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8da5ba05-4a71-3d1d-afc3-2f0464797591
Use licence for this record: CC 0
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8da5ba05-4a71-3d1d-afc3-2f0464797591, Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums, CC 0
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