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Toys of All Ages

Print
1935 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Colour offset lithograph poster, printed in brown ink, reproducing six toys to be found in public collections in London.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleToys of All Ages (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Brief description
'Toys Of All Ages'. Printed proof for a poster (one of three posters, along with a key and a guide), 7-12 in a series of images of toys advertising public collections of toys in London. Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer and issued by the London Passenger Transport Board, 1935.
Physical description
Colour offset lithograph poster, printed in brown ink, reproducing six toys to be found in public collections in London.
Dimensions
  • Height: 76cm
  • Width: 54.4cm
Measurements taken from: 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
Production typeProof
Marks and inscriptions
'E. McKnight Kauffer. 35.' (Signed and dated)
Subject depicted
Associated objects
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
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1971
Other number
22/E5 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.415A-1971

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Record createdMarch 1, 2011
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