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Treat Yourself To Better Play. Music.

Poster
1935 (designed)
Artist/Maker
London Passenger Transport Board (issued by)
Kauffer, Edward McKnight (designer)
Place of origin
Greater London (issued)

Colour offset lithograph poster.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Transport
Music
Object type
Poster
TitleTreat Yourself To Better Play. Music. (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Lithographic Ink
Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description
'Treat Yourself To Better Play. Music'. Colour offset lithograph poster designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer. Issued by the London Passenger Transport Board, 1935.
Physical description
Colour offset lithograph poster.
Dimensions
  • Height: 101.2cm
  • Width: 63.8cm
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 and dated '35'.
Credit line
Given by the London Passenger Transport Board.
Subject depicted
Music
Associated object
E.526-1980 (Duplicate)
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 and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1936, London: Board of Education, 1937.
Other number
22/D7 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.13-1936

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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