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"First Thing Every Morning." Eno's "Fruit Salt."

Poster
1924 (designed), 1924 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Kauffer, Edward McKnight (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

Colour lithograph poster advertising Eno's Fruit Salt. The design shows a large navy-blue cockerel, crowing as the sun rises over the curved horizon. There is grey text in the top-left of the design and yellow text below the cockerel, on a purple ground. Signed and dated 'E. McKnight Kauffer, 24'.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Health
Posters
Object type
Poster
Title"First Thing Every Morning." Eno's "Fruit Salt." (trade title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Lithographic Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'First Thing Every Morning'. Colour lithograph poster advertising Eno's Fruit Salt, designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer, Great Britain, 1924.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster advertising Eno's Fruit Salt. The design shows a large navy-blue cockerel, crowing as the sun rises over the curved horizon. There is grey text in the top-left of the design and yellow text below the cockerel, on a purple ground. Signed and dated 'E. McKnight Kauffer, 24'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 76.2cm
  • Width: 50.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
'E. McKnight Kauffer, 24' (Signed)
Credit line
Presented by Messrs. J. C. Eno, Ltd.
Subjects depicted
Cockrel
Rising Suns
Bibliographic references
  • Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1924, published under the Authority of the Board of Education, London, 1926.
Other number
21/E1 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.338-1924

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1110770/first-thing-every-morning-enos-poster-kauffer-edward-mcknight/
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