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- Ian Hamilton Finlay 1925–2006
- Medium
- Screenprint on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 305 × 438 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1981
- Reference
- P07462
Catalogue entry
P07462 TOPIARY AIRCRAFT CARRIER 1972
Not inscribed
Screenprint printed at Girdwood and published by the Wild Hawthorn Press in an edition of about 400, 12×17 1/4 (30.5× 43.8)
Purchased from Coracle Press (Grant-in-Aid) 1981
Made in collaboration with Ian Gardner. Finlay later grew a topiary version of this with box in his garden at Stonypath.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1984
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