Not currently on display at the V&A

Poster

1931 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Typographic. The image shows Hess wearing red coat and black top hat, holding two horses by their head collars.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Printed ink on card
Brief description
Hanging card advertising Bertram Mills' Circus and Menagerie, featuring C. Hess with two of his horses, Bedford, 1931
Physical description
Typographic. The image shows Hess wearing red coat and black top hat, holding two horses by their head collars.
Dimensions
  • Print size height: 41.0cm
  • Print size width: 30.3cm
  • Mount size, external height: 355mm
  • Mount size external width: 406mm
Credit line
Given by the Norfolk Rural Life Museum
Object history
This poster was part of a collection of circus and theatre posters and ephemera collected by John Bates and given to the Norfolk Rural Life Museum by his widow. As the collection fell outside its collecting remit, the Rural Life Museum gave it to the V&A Theatre Museum.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
S.751-1984

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Record createdJuly 23, 2010
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