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To be a hero it is not enough...

To be a hero it is not enough...
 1983
from Ian Hamilton Finlay Posters 1983

Medium
lithograph printed in black and red ink
Measurements
11.8 × 28.7 cm (comp.) 20.9 × 29.8 cm (sheet)
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Murray, Mooney & Finlay 5.82
Printing/Publishing
published by Wild Hawthorn Press
Inscription
printed in red ink: TO BE A HERO / IT IS NOT ENOUGH / TO WRITE TO BUREAUCRACY TWICE
printed in ink: IAN HAMILTON FINLAY: DETACHED SENTENCES ON REVOLUTION / THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY: LITTLE SPARTA
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.r.c.: 1983
Accession Number
2010.168.1
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
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Gallery location
Not on display

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