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The image on the cover of the card depicts a line drawing of a boat rudder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Depicts image of scythes whose blades becomes transformed into a lightening flash, a metaphor for the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Depicts a seascape with inscribed flat stones (Liber Veritas) in the foreground -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A bollard is a thick low post on a wharf which is used to moor ships with a rope. This book depicts bollards for a decoration of a Scottish Shopping Centre, The Gyle - Edinburgh. Reproductions of drawings are depicted one to a page. Each is inscribed with the name of a ship which also alludes to a poem or quotation generally from classical literature as indicated in footnotes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Depicts seven flattened paper, seed packets with identical images om one side, a watering can and flowers; the name of seven leaders of the French revolution is a metaphor for the seeds, e.g., Robespierre, Saint-Just, Couthin, etc. On the other side of the packet, a tri-color ribbon is attached to the middle of a tombstone. These packets have outlines to allow cutting and folding to form a three dimensional seed packet. They are a metaphor to the events of the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Five prints were adapted by Hinks from drawings by Claude Lorrain (1640, 1642, 1643, 1649). The texts of the tree plaques for this proposal were taken from classical sources in Latin and Greek literature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This version of the card is unfolded. The image depicts on the embossed white card, a casket on white snowdrifts with fir trees in the background. The caption reads, neoclassical precipitation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image depicts on the embossed white card, a casket on white snowdrifts with fir trees in the background. The caption reads, neoclassical precipitation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card depicts of a grid of six images abstracted from nature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print is not listed in Finlay's book, Prints 1963-1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image on the cover of the card depicts a line drawing of a partial hull of a boat. Thonier might mean a tuna fishing boat, e.g., the French word for tuna is "thon." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The etching or woodcut black and white image on the card cover by Hincks appears to be a scene taken from Finlay's Little Sparta garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image on the cover of the card is a dull red colored print of stacked fishing boxes with three added fishing boat numbers in black typeface adapted from a painting by Ben Nicholson entitled, "Brown with Little Squares." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The etching or woodcut black and white image on the card cover by Hincks appears to be a scene taken from Finlay's Little Sparta garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The etching or woodcut black and white image on the card cover by Hincks appears to be a scene taken from Finlay's Little Sparta garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Finlay writes that the statement is "A likely fragment of Archilochos suggested by a sentence in Basil Greenhill's "Sailing For A Living." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The relation of the captions to the classical architectural images is obscure but is based upon Ovid's Metamorphoses. For example, both Echo and Narcissus are mentioned in two of Finlay's poems; the significance of "Echo to echo" and the arch is not apparent. However, the reflecting pool of the poem, for 'Narcissus' read 'Narcissus' follows the text of the poem as follows. According to a web site, relating to Narcissus and Echo Ovid's Metamorphoses, "Tiresias, the man recently blinded by Juno (known as Hera in Greek mythology, but this is the story of Ovid who wrote in Latin) and made a prophet by Jupiter (Zeus), quickly gained a reputation for being infallible in his answers about the future. Sometimes, however, the answers of Tiresias were as opaque as those of any other oracle. Liriope, a naiad, became pregnant with the child of the river god Cephisus. When their child was born, Liriope named him Narcissus. She asked the blind seer Tiresias if her son would live a long life and...

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The print depicts a blue pointillist image of the harbor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.