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Victoria and Albert Museum now open until 8 ...

Poster
1937 (issued)
Artist/Maker
London Passenger Transport Board (issued by)
Beath (designer)
Place of origin
London (issued)

'The Victoria and Albert Museum: Now Open Until 8, On Thursday, Friday and Saturday Evenings, on other days until 6'. Colour lithograph poster advertising the later closing of the V&A between 1 April 1937 and 31 July 1938. Showing a photo illustration of a sculpture head against a black graphic with white line attached representing an open door, against a turquoise blue ground. The text, below the image is in black and white and that across the top is in blue.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Posters
History of the V&A
Sculpture
Object type
Poster
TitleVictoria and Albert Museum now open until 8 ...
Materials and techniques
Colour lithography
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'The Victoria and Albert Museum: Now Open Until 8 ...'. Colour lithograph poster advertising the later closing of the V&A between 1 April 1937 and 31 July 1938. The design featuring a photo illustration of a sculpture head. Designed by John Myles Fleming ('Beath'). Issued by the London Passenger Transport Board, 1937.
Physical description
'The Victoria and Albert Museum: Now Open Until 8, On Thursday, Friday and Saturday Evenings, on other days until 6'. Colour lithograph poster advertising the later closing of the V&A between 1 April 1937 and 31 July 1938. Showing a photo illustration of a sculpture head against a black graphic with white line attached representing an open door, against a turquoise blue ground. The text, below the image is in black and white and that across the top is in blue.
Dimensions
  • Height: 101.2cm
  • Width: 62.7cm
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
Credit line
Given by the London Passenger Transport Board
Subject depicted
Sculpture
Place depicted
Victoria and Albert Museum
Bibliographic references
  • 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
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1938. London: The Board of Education, 1939.
Other number
13/A3 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1865-1938

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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