Home Bulbs

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Artist/Maker	A.A. Moore (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (made) Great Britain (issued)

Colour lithograph poster with a design showing a field of cultivated flowering tulips, planted in coloured bands (red, yellow, white etc.)

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Categories	Prints Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Home Bulbs
Materials and techniques	Colour lithograph
Brief description	'Home Bulbs'. Colour lithograph poster re-printed for use in schools - a reduced version of the poster designed by A. A. Moore and first issued by the Empire Marketing Board in 1929.
Physical description	Colour lithograph poster with a design showing a field of cultivated flowering tulips, planted in coloured bands (red, yellow, white etc.)
Dimensions	Size of sheet height: 50.6cm Size of sheet width: 76.2cm Size of sheet 50.6 x 76.2 cm.
Marks and inscriptions	'A.A.Moore '28' (Signed and dated.) 'R.A.S.3' (Inscribed in pencil.) 'C.R.S.' (Inscribed in another hand.)
Object history	This is a small version, re-printed for use in schools, of a poster that was first issued by the Empire Marketing Board in 1929.
Production	This is a small version, re-printed for use in schools, of a poster that was first issued by the Empire Marketing Board in 1929.
Subjects depicted	British Empire Tulips Flowers Field
Bibliographic references	A poster by the same artist entitled 'Home Bulbs for Home Gardens: Isles of Scilly' is reproduced in: Constantine, Stephen. Buy & Build: The Advertising Posters of the Empire Marketing Board. London. 1986, pl.38. 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
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.370-1988

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Record created	November 24, 2008
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O173807/home-bulbs-poster-aa-moore/

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