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Poster

1919 (issued)
Artist/Maker
McEvoy, Ambrose (artist)
Place of origin
London (issued)

Colour lithograph poster showing a head-and-shoulder portrait painting of the actress Lillah McCarthy, advertising the season of plays produced at the Kingsway Theatre, London, 1919.


Object details

Categories
Posters
Portraits
Theatre
Advertising
Entertainment & Leisure
Prints
Object type
Poster
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Lithographic Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
Portrait of the actress Lillah McCarthy (1875-1960). Colour lithograph poster advertising the season of plays produced at the Kingsway Theatre, London, 1919. The portrait is after the painting by Arthur Ambrose McEvoy, A.R.A.. Great Britain, 1919.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster showing a head-and-shoulder portrait painting of the actress Lillah McCarthy, advertising the season of plays produced at the Kingsway Theatre, London, 1919.
Dimensions
  • Height: 77cm
  • Width: 50.3cm
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
Credit line
Given by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd.
Subjects depicted
Theatre
Portrait
Painting
Woman
Actress
McCarthy, Lillah
Associated object
E.3438-1953
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 1924, published under the Authority of the Board of Education, London, 1926.
Other number
25/G3 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.81-1924

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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