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The image of a classical Greek temple fronted by trees is based upon a quotation from Milton's "The Passion" viz., The gentle neighborhood of GROVE and spring, Would soon unbosum all their echos mild..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The card depicts a WWI fighting air plane on its upper half and a sailing barge on its lower half. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image on this card reproduces a stamp for the exhibition, "Imagined Lands" at the City Art Centre in Edinburgh, 1996. It depicts the name of an old fishing boat and the new European Union type of fishboxes as a comment on the decline in the national fisheries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a polemic against Finlay's critics of his books on the staff of the Glasgow Herald. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The back cover of the card reads, "Valentine." The flower at the beginning of each phrase of the poem is depicted in frontal view. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem consists of a quotation by Mathier commenting on Robespierre. It is printed in an italicized white text on a black background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Gywn Headley, the author of "Follies, A National Trust Guide," made disparaging comments about Finlay's Temple Garden. In this card, Finlay depicts a guillotine scene with a severed head. The author's name is printed on the image as two parts, "head" referring to the severed head and "ley" meaning law. The image is captioned with "Terror is the piety of the Revolution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Gywn Headley, the author of "Follies, A National Trust Guide," made disparaging comments about Finlay's Temple Garden. The image depicts a bust of his severed head held by a human hand. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The image was taken from the painting by Jacques-Louis David. Wikipedia 2011: During the constitutional monarchy, there were two radical groups vying for power, the Girondins and the Jacobins. Although both groups were more radical in their views than the moderates who had designed the constitutional monarchy, the Girondins were somewhat less radical. In late 1791, the Girondins first emerged as an important power in France. At first the two parties were united in their views. The Girondins were concerned about the plight of the blacks in France's colonies and were instrumental in passing legislation granting equal rights to all free blacks and mulattoes. They wanted the declaration of war against Austria in early 1792 in the hopes that a show of strength would give them leverage with the King. The Jacobins grew increasingly critical of Girondin policies. During the September massacres later that year, the Girondin leaders tried to persuade the crowds out of their bloody attacks....

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Januszczak was an art critic for the Guardian newspaper who wrote unkindly of Finlay. The image depicts a bust of his severed head held by a human hand. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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According to the Finlay bibliography, few copies of this work were made. Also, the catalogue gives a publication date of 1968. The abstract images were reproduced as linocuts after drawings by John Furnival. It also missdates publication as 1968. According to Celery City books, there were not more than 30 copies printed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card is a print of one of the pages from the book with the same title. However, the poem "Tugboat a drag says barge," is printed in uppercase letters here whereas the same page in the book is printed in lower case letters. Further, the colors of the words differ in registry. Finally, the poem on the verso has a different layout than the page in the book. This card is cited in the Finlay bibliography as a "trial card." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Concrete poems were created from collated headlines. Eight were composed by the art students and five by Finlay. Ann Stevenson who did "Water Wheels in Whirl" is known as Ann Noel and is the wife of Emmett Williams. Work is dedicated to Eve Furnival, and cover of portfolio consists of a grid of identical child-drawn images of Finlay entitled "The Flying Scatsman." In this copy, the title page has a typographic error, viz., Published dy (sic) Openings Press...(this was not observed in another copy formerly held by the Sackner Archive). Ian Hamilton Finlay's "13 evelines," were sent to John Furnival's daughter Eve as postcards on thirteen consecutive days by students in Furnival's Bath Academy of Art class. It was subsequently printed as this portfolio. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This poem is an attack on Michel Blum, who was responsible in part for rejection of Finlay's commission for the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a duplicate print from Finlay's portfolio Headlines:Eavelines. The word, "turnover" in this copy are orange whereas the print in the portfolio is brown.The verso has the following inscription: "from Evalines / Headlines by I.H.F. and students at Bath Academy of Art Openings Press." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image on this card depicts a line drawing of water flowing past pebbles. The image relates to the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The inscription of this print reads "You cannot step into the same river/revolution twice." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.