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Cocoa Pods

Poster Design
1927 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Original design for a poster, showing three men in white loin cloths, two of themn filling brown sacks with cocoa pods, amongst lush, green foliage.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleCocoa Pods (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Tempera
Brief description
'Cocoa Pods'. Original design by Edward McKnight Kauffer for a poster issued by the Empire Marketing Board, 1927.
Physical description
Original design for a poster, showing three men in white loin cloths, two of themn filling brown sacks with cocoa pods, amongst lush, green foliage.
Dimensions
  • Height: 76.2cm
  • Width: 114.3cm
From departmental notes.
Marks and inscriptions
'E. McKnight Kauffer. '27' (Signed and dated.)
Credit line
Given by the Empire Marketing Board
Subjects depicted
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 & Albert Museum Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings Accessions 1934 London: Published under the Authority of the Board of Education, 1935
Other number
21/G6 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Accession number
E.331-1934

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
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