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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1790 Collections and/or Records:

The First Battle of Little Sparta, February 4, 1983 (Flute, Begin with Me), 1984

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-12418-12645
Scope and Contents

The medal depicts an automatic machine gun as a metaphor for a flute; commemorates first episode of an assult by the Strathclyde Region tax collectors on Finlay's home. The leaflet accompanyimg this medal commemorating the incident is a visual pun on Virgil's flute, with the vents in the barrel-sleeve as the finger-stops. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Flageolet's Surname / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Lindsley, Kathleen., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-10982-11195
Scope and Contents The image on this card is a drawing of a drum. Wikipedia 2011: A flageolet is a woodwind musical instrument and a member of the fipple flute family. Its invention is ascribed to the 16th century Sieur Juvigny in 1581.[1] It had 4 holes on the front and 2 on the back. The English instrument maker William Bainbridge developed it further and patented the "improved English flageolet" in 1803 as well as the double flageolet around 1805. They were continued to be made until the 19th century when it was succeeded by the tin whistle. Flageolets have varied greatly during the last 400 years. The first flageolets were called "French flageolets", and have four tone-holes on the front and two on the back. This instrument was played by Frédéric Chalon, Samuel Pepys, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Henry Purcell and George Frideric Handel both wrote pieces for it. Small versions of this instrument, called bird flageolets were also made and were used for teaching birds to sing. The number of keys on...
Dates: 1989

The Garden and the Revolution / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-10896-11106
Scope and Contents

The curators, J.B.Ravenal and A.Miller-Keller state that Finlay "engages classical forms and ideas as an ethical and philosophical means by which to bring present culture into sharper focus... The exhibition presents two central themes in Finlay's work: the garden tradition and the French Revolution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Garden / Astrid Furnival., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-12344-12570
Scope and Contents

The text is based upon the poem "The Garden" by Andrew Marvell, in which Furnival interprets the lines as garden rows. The colors of the wool were hand dyed from natural herbs and plants in her garden. The words are knitted on the tapestry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Garden / Astrid Furnival., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-12344-12570
Scope and Contents

The text is based upon the poem "The Garden" by Andrew Marvell, in which Furnival interprets the lines as garden rows. The colors of the wool were hand dyed from natural herbs and plants in her garden. The words are knitted on the tapestry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Garden Is Open / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12150-12374
Scope and Contents

On the verso, Finlay writes that his garden is opened to members of the National Trust whose book considered Finlay's sculptural garden an architectural folly; however the gate to the garden in the image on the recto is framed with a guillotine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Gloved Hand or Ladies' What-Not / Butler, Frances., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-22969-23406
Scope and Contents

One copy has a maroon paper cover, the other copy a gray paper cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Good Citizen's Alphabet / Russell, Bertrand ; Themerson, Franciszka., 1953

 Item
Identifier: CC-33613-35267
Scope and Contents

Each letter of the alphabet is set in a different typeface and is illustrated by a cartoon-like line drawing by Themerson that is captioned with a bitter aphorism by Russell. The words for the caption begin with Asinine, Bolshevik, Christian, Diabolic, etc. The book has an inscription by a previous owner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1953

The Harbour at Gravelines / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1978

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-12370-12596
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1978

The Harbour / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-11940-12163
Scope and Contents

The photograph on the card was taken by Dianne Tammes. This poem was adapted from Finlay's publication, "A Mast of Hankies." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

The Hat / Chwast, Seymour ; Seastone, Leonard., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-49211-70253
Scope and Contents

Chwast provides illustrations of people wearing hats through the ages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

The Illustrated Wilfred Funk / Ferlinghetti, Lawrence., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-59599-10002677
Scope and Contents

This poem is also printed without the illustrations in the periodical, Desparado, held by the Sackner Archive with annotations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

The Immaculate Conception / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1954

 Item
Identifier: CC-09836-10030
Scope and Contents

This depicts two nuns holding hands while lying in bed; It is collaged onto a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954

The Jolly Joker / Ulrichs, Timm., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-52949-74091
Scope and Contents

Depicts a self-portrait of Ulrichs dressed in a Joker costume. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Land's Shadows / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Micheal., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-28799-30110
Scope and Contents

Issued at Christmas 1971. Mentioned in Finlay's bibliography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971