SHEPHERDS – BATH TOWELS. CHRISTMAS 1991.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991

9.9 x 8.2cm, 4pp. A painting which may well be a potato print beloved of young childen shows a blue and red pattern which could be seen as a paper crown worn at a Xmas dinner. Internal to the card Finlay notes:


Shepherds – Bath Towels
Angels – Sheets

and below “(Instructions for a school play)”.


The painting therefore can be read as also displaying the bath towels (with patterns) for use to make costumes for a school nativity play. Angels all in white obviously need sheets that do not have patterns. Perhaps Finlay is displaying his identification more with the shepherds (a job after all that he did as a young man).

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