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Blankets from the original Witney Makers Chas. Early & Co. Ltd. Established 1650.

Poster
c.1920 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

'Blankets from the original Witney Makers Chas. Early & Co. Ltd. Established 1650'. Colour lithograph poster advertising Witney blankets.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleBlankets from the original Witney Makers Chas. Early & Co. Ltd. Established 1650. (published title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithography
Brief description
'Blankets from the original Witney Makers Chas. Early & Co. Ltd. Established 1650'. Colour lithograph poster advertising Witney blankets. Designed by Claud Lovat Fraser. Great Britain. c.1920-1924.
Physical description
'Blankets from the original Witney Makers Chas. Early & Co. Ltd. Established 1650'. Colour lithograph poster advertising Witney blankets.
Dimensions
  • Height: 56.5cm
  • Width: 37.6cm
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
Historical context
The small Oxfordshire town of Witney was famous for its production of blankets for ca. 300 years. The last blanket mill closed in 2002.

Charles Early and Co. Ltd. (operating 1862-1960) was the most important of the Early family companies. Inherited by Charles Early from his father John in 1862, it merged with Marriott's in 1960.
Subject depicted
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
  • Millard, C. The printed work of Claud Lovat Fraser. London. 1923. p. 290.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1924, published under the Authority of the Board of Education, London, 1926.
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20110930164723/http://www.witneyblanketstory.org.uk/wbp.asp
Other number
13/D1 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Accession number
E.1995-1924

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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