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Poster Design

1959 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Study for the design of 'New Fields - New Ambitions', a poster advertising the Post Office Savings Bank (see E.526-1987). Drawn in body colour and pencil on one side of a folded sheet.
Captioned in pencil below the image Plant Ecology, dated in ballpoint pen on the outside of the folded sheet 10 Dec 59 and labelled, also on the outside, with the name and address of the artist's agent R.P. Gossop and the caption Rough sketch by Eric Fraser.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
body colour and pencil on one side of a folded sheet
Brief description
Study for the design of 'New Fields - New Ambitions', a poster advertising the Post Office Savings Bank (see E.526-1987). Drawn in body colour and pencil on one side of a folded sheet. By Eric George Fraser. Great Britain. 1959.
Physical description
Study for the design of 'New Fields - New Ambitions', a poster advertising the Post Office Savings Bank (see E.526-1987). Drawn in body colour and pencil on one side of a folded sheet.
Captioned in pencil below the image Plant Ecology, dated in ballpoint pen on the outside of the folded sheet 10 Dec 59 and labelled, also on the outside, with the name and address of the artist's agent R.P. Gossop and the caption Rough sketch by Eric Fraser.
Dimensions
  • Folded to height: 19.5cm
  • Folded to width: 25.7cm
Dimensions 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
Marks and inscriptions
  • Plant Ecology (Captioned in pencil below the image.)
  • 10 Dec 59 (Dated in ballpoint pen on the outside of the folded sheet.)
  • (Labelled, also on the outside, with the name and address of the artist's agent R.P. Gossop and the caption Rough sketch by Eric Fraser.)
Production
This is a study for the design of the poster E.526-1987.
Associated object
Bibliographic reference
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
Other number
13/F11 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Accession number
E.525-1987

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Record createdJuly 27, 2000
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