Home Gardens For Home Markets

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Artist/Maker	Empire Marketing Board (issuer) Nash, Paul (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (issued)

One sheet of a colour lithograph poster made up of six sheets. The design is a colour illustration showing two wicker baskets of produce in the foreground, with two glasshouses and a watering can behind.

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Categories	Propaganda Prints Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Home Gardens For Home Markets
Materials and techniques	Colour lithograph Colour Lithography
Brief description	'Home Gardens For Home Markets'. One sheet of a colour lithograph poster made up of six sheets. This sheet was designed by Paul Nash. Issued by the Empire Marketing Board, Great Britain, 1930.
Physical description	One sheet of a colour lithograph poster made up of six sheets. The design is a colour illustration showing two wicker baskets of produce in the foreground, with two glasshouses and a watering can behind.
Dimensions	Height: 120cm Width: 151.7cm 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
Marks and inscriptions	Signed.
Object history	The purpose of the poster as a whole is to encourage the British public to celebrate and request home-grown produce.
Subjects depicted	Empire Food Industry (The) Baskets Fruit Vegetables Glasshouses Watering Cans
Associated objects	E.449-1932 (Version) E.318-1934 E.319-1934 (Design) E.169-1980 E.170-1980 E.172-1980 E.173-1980 E.449:3-1932 (Duplicate)
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	28/A4 - V&A microfiche
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.174-1980

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O550937/home-gardens-for-home-markets-poster-nash-paul/

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