Not currently on display at the V&A

Poster

1988 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Pictorial and typographic. The streamer is mainly typographic but it does feature an image of a girl wearing a Native American feathered headdress (and very little else), sitting on an elephant.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Photolithograph
Brief description
Streamer advertising Cottle and Austen's Combined Circus, probably issued 1988. No specific venue mentioned since it would have been used for the tenting circus.
Physical description
Pictorial and typographic. The streamer is mainly typographic but it does feature an image of a girl wearing a Native American feathered headdress (and very little else), sitting on an elephant.
Dimensions
  • Poster height: 50.6cm
  • Poster width: 152.2cm
Object history
Associated Production: Cottle and Austen's Circus. 1988. Performance category: circus. The image on this streamer is the same as that on Cottle and Austen's 1988 poster for their circus at Battersea Park - S.3757-1995.
Collection
Accession number
S.3758-1995

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Record createdJuly 30, 2010
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