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Other Travellers: Robinson Crusoe

Menu Card
ca.1952 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Menu card with a colour illustration Robinson Crusoe, raggedly dressed and supporting a parrot on his shoulder.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleOther Travellers: Robinson Crusoe (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Brief description
'Other Travellers: Robinson Crusoe'. Menu card (one of six), designed by Lynton Lamb for use by the Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. Colour lithograph, ca.1952.
Physical description
Menu card with a colour illustration Robinson Crusoe, raggedly dressed and supporting a parrot on his shoulder.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 21.9cm
  • Sheet width: 26cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
Style
Marks and inscriptions
'Lynton Lamb' (Inscribed with title, lettered with description and signed)
Credit line
Given by the Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.
Subjects depicted
Literary reference<i>Robinson Crusoe</i> by Daniel Defoe
Bibliographic reference
Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
Collection
Accession number
E.192-1952

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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