FEBRUARY 4. NOTHING! 1987. HAND ADDRESSED BY FINLAY IN INK.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
14 x 12.5cm, 2pp artist’s card released on the fourth anniversary of the First Battle of Little Sparta. The card quotes Jules Claretie reporting on Louis XVI writing “Nothing” in his diary on the night of the storming of the Bastille (this is unfair on Louis as the reference to “nothing” was actually his recording of a failure to catch anything while hunting but the story is usually told as to prove he was out of touch). Louis was indeed out of touch (he went hunting on that day after all) but that diary entry was not evidence of it but Finlay uses the quote to taunt his enemies’ failure to storm the Temple Gallery on that day four years earlier thanks to the actions of the Saint-Just Vigilantes.
This card is hand address by Finlay and it has been mailed with stamp and franking. VG+