This is a purely textural work in two colors, each letter of the words alternates as green or blue. This serves as a metaphor for the contrast of liberty and death in the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem was adapted from one written by Thomas A. Clark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes an introductory essay by Thomas A. Clark on the significance of Pastorales. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book and exhibition consisted of photographs of Finlay's garden. The Sackners visited the garden in 1982 and September 2004. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Adapted from Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Wikipedia: The northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), also known as the peewit, pewit, tuit or tew-it (imitative of its cry), green plover (emphasising the colour of the plumage) or (in the British Isles) just lapwing (which refers to its peculiar, erratic way of flying), is a bird in the lapwing family. It is common through temperate Eurasia. It is highly migratory over most of its extensive range, wintering further south as far as north Africa, northern India, Pakistan, and parts of China. It migrates mainly by day, often in large flocks. Lowland breeders in westernmost areas of Europe are resident. It occasionally is a vagrant to North America, especially after storms, as in the Canadian sightings after storms in December 1927 and in January 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem reads, "Homage to Simon Cutts." The image on the card depicts a hand poking a pencil through the hull of a toy boat and might signify the "brute force" artistic efforts of Cutts perceived by Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The print depicts toy sailing ships on water with brown sails. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The slides depict the installation of the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The exhibition, curated by Patrick Murphy, consisted of works loaned by the Sackner Archive, Carlos & Rosa de la Cruz, Martin Margulies, and William & Phyliss Mack. The artists from the Sackner Archive consisted of Tom Phillips, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Genevieve Seille. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes the epithats "The French Attache is Paper Mache, Art Press is Part Cress, All that Glitters is not Aryan, Parisians Spoil the French, and The League of Rights Intrigues in Tights." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes the epithats "The French Attache is Paper Mache, Art Press is Part Cress, All that Glitters is not Aryan, Parisians Spoil the French, and The League of Rights Intrigues in Tights." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes the epithats, "Don't Put All Your Heads in One Basket, Spare the Blade and Spoil the Factions, and Don't Cast Your Revolutions before Swine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The listing in Finlay's bibliographies indicates that the series contains three cards but this set has a duplicate, "Spare the Blade..." and is missing "Don't Cast Your Revolution..." On the other hand, another card of lighter stock paper that reproduces a comment on the verso of the cards is not cited in the bibliographies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes the epithats, "Don't Put All Your Heads in One Basket, Spare the Blade and Spoil the Factions, and Don't Cast Your Revolutions before Swine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Lists names, ages and occupations of French people who died during days 7-9 of the tenth calendar month of the French Republic, Messidor June 20-July 19. The texts were presumably taken from their tombstones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The card depicts a photograph of the underside of a model glider plane. The caption is subtitled, "Homage a Gris." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.