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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1786 Collections and/or Records:

Tree-Shells 3 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Lassus, Bernard., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-11918-12141
Scope and Contents

This the second (!) of two cards with the same poem but a different image of the tree. Here the drawing is more defined with the leaves resembling the roughened outer shell of an oyster shell whereas in the first presentation with Ian Gardner (1971), the tree is rendered a solid green color without an outline of leaves but a shape more like a clam shell. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Tree-Shells 3 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Lassus, Bernard., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-11919-12142
Scope and Contents

This the second (!) of two cards with the same poem but a different image of the tree. Here the drawing is more defined with the leaves resembling the outer shell of an oyster whereas in the first presentation with Ian Gardner (1971), the tree has a solid green color without outline of leaves and a shape resembling a clam shell. The tree is drawnd in black ink but the card is printed in green ink. The printed text collaged onto the cardboard support was cut from Gardner's card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Tree-Shells / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gardner, Ian; Lassus, Bernard., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-11921-12144
Scope and Contents

The tree has a solid green color with a shape resembling a clam shell. According to Willliam Allen (WEB 2013), this is the true first edition of this important card. A later version of this card is often mistaken to be the first edition. This card features Gardner's watercolour image - a tile version of Tree Shells based on this image was made in the 1970s and caused much controversy between Gardner and Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Trim Here / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-11986-12209
Scope and Contents

One copy has been printed on heavy gray stock paper the other on cream light stock paper. The image is a sailing ship with puns on nautical terms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Trombone Carrier / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12030-12253
Scope and Contents

This card depicts a drawing of an oil tanker ship; the card has been perforated to accomodate four metal paper clips, which symbolize trombones, placed in an upright position. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Troughs of Low Pressure / Furnival, John., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-13167-13468
Scope and Contents

Depicts a stormy looking landscape as part of a series of 11 prints on meteorlogical expressions in Cumbria in collaboration with Jonathan Williams. In The Vocative and Locative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

True Vine / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35368-37102
Scope and Contents

The print depicts the same seven vertically arranged labels of measurements that was adapted from Ben Nicholson's "Letters and Numbers." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Tu Voudrais la Grandeur, 1982

 Item — Folder 13: [Barcode: 31858069877920]
Identifier: CC-25369-25826

Tweak Your Brain Again / Black, Leda., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29107-30452
Scope and Contents

This is a paid receipt for PLL issues #5-8 from Leda Black. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Twilight / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-12566-12798
Scope and Contents

The words "Twilight remembers" are printed on sky blue paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Two Elegies / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35345-37079
Scope and Contents

The cards each provide commercial specifications of a sailboat, one marked sold, the other withdrawn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Two Horizons, 1998

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-31587-33085
Scope and Contents

The spools of thread in a box were mailed to the Sackners as a Christmas gift from Finlay. One spool has blue, the other black thread, serving as a metaphor for clear and stormy weather, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Two Poems (1) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11100-11315
Scope and Contents

This poem is entitled Des Esseintes and reads The muddied- colours of - the mouthwash - cocktails. The title translate in English to boredom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Two Poems (2) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11099-11314
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a cap with a Spitfire (British WWII fighter airplane) roundel. The poem reads, A cap - of liberty- with a Spitfire -roundel -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993