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This card depicts of a grid of six images abstracted from nature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image on the cover of the card depicts a line drawing of a partial hull of a boat. Thonier might mean a tuna fishing boat, e.g., the French word for tuna is "thon." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The etching or woodcut black and white image on the card cover by Hincks appears to be a scene taken from Finlay's Little Sparta garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image on the cover of the card is a dull red colored print of stacked fishing boxes with three added fishing boat numbers in black typeface adapted from a painting by Ben Nicholson entitled, "Brown with Little Squares." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The etching or woodcut black and white image on the card cover by Hincks appears to be a scene taken from Finlay's Little Sparta garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The etching or woodcut black and white image on the card cover by Hincks appears to be a scene taken from Finlay's Little Sparta garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Finlay writes that the statement is "A likely fragment of Archilochos suggested by a sentence in Basil Greenhill's "Sailing For A Living." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The relation of the captions to the classical architectural images is obscure but is based upon Ovid's Metamorphoses. For example, both Echo and Narcissus are mentioned in two of Finlay's poems; the significance of "Echo to echo" and the arch is not apparent. However, the reflecting pool of the poem, for 'Narcissus' read 'Narcissus' follows the text of the poem as follows. According to a web site, relating to Narcissus and Echo Ovid's Metamorphoses, "Tiresias, the man recently blinded by Juno (known as Hera in Greek mythology, but this is the story of Ovid who wrote in Latin) and made a prophet by Jupiter (Zeus), quickly gained a reputation for being infallible in his answers about the future. Sometimes, however, the answers of Tiresias were as opaque as those of any other oracle. Liriope, a naiad, became pregnant with the child of the river god Cephisus. When their child was born, Liriope named him Narcissus. She asked the blind seer Tiresias if her son would live a long life and...

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The poems are parodies of events or art. For example, in the illustration depicted in this record, Finlay & Hincks modified Gris cubist portrait of the art dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler to a cubist portrait of a pipe-smoking snowman and captioned the work, Daniel-Henry Snowman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems in this book deal with old sailing boat events. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The etching or woodcut black and white image on the card cover by Hincks appears to be a scene taken from Finlay's Little Sparta garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image in this poem has been modified from a figurative painting by Puvis de Chavnannes through addition of a French republican tricolor button to the mast of his boat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Thermodor indicates a name of the month during the French Republican calendar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem consists of a four line description of thistledown. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Drpicts symbols of the French Revolution, watering-can, altar, and teapot. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image on this card reproduces a black and white linocut by Hincks after a painting by Ben Nicholson, "Two Mugs." This work was made into a print by Finlay that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.