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Poster

1987 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Laminate, portrait oriented, poster with a pale yellow background. On the left is an illustration of a peacock with orange, red and blue feathers and a boat, with four rowers dressed in blue, adorned with floral decoration and headed by a peacock. On the left is a Chinese dragon in orange, red and blue and a blue boat, with nine rowers wearing red and a coxswain banging a drum, headed by a Chinese dragon's head.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Offset lithograph print on paper that has been laminated in plastic
Brief description
Poster produced for the Asian Water Sports Project to advertise the Bangladeshi and Chinese boats coming to Tower Hamlets, depicting a Bangladeshi Peacock Boat, a Chinese Dragon Boat, a peacock and a Chinese dragon, made by Basement Community Arts Workshop, printed on offset lithograph, 1987
Physical description
Laminate, portrait oriented, poster with a pale yellow background. On the left is an illustration of a peacock with orange, red and blue feathers and a boat, with four rowers dressed in blue, adorned with floral decoration and headed by a peacock. On the left is a Chinese dragon in orange, red and blue and a blue boat, with nine rowers wearing red and a coxswain banging a drum, headed by a Chinese dragon's head.
Dimensions
  • Height: 59.5cm
  • Width: 42.1cm
Dimensions taken from plastic laminate.
Marks and inscriptions
'THE PEACOCK MEETS THE DRAGON' This is also written in Bengali and Chinese writing 'Traditional Bangladeshi Peacock Boats and Chinese Dragon Boats come to Tower Hamlets' 'Crews and Helpers wanted / contact the Asian Water Sports Project 48I 42I0 / a joint project between / the Chinese Association of Tower Hamlets / Sailors Home, Commercial Road, E.I. 5I5 5598 / the Golden Moon Project, 236 Cable Street, E.I. 790 4020 / the Shadwell Basin Projects, Pierhead, Glamis Road, E.I. 48I 42I6' 'Poster designed by the Basement 790 4020'
Credit line
Given by Greenwich Mural Workshop
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
From an exhibition by Greenwich Mural Workshop, 'Printing is Easy...? Community Printshops 1970-1986'
Collection
Accession number
E.510-2013

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Record createdNovember 20, 2013
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