Where else do they give you £100,000,000 worth of objets d'art free with every egg salad?
Poster
1988 (issued)
1988 (issued)
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This poster was one of six in the campaign series 'V&A: An ace caff, with quite a nice museum attached', produced by Paul Arden and Jeff Stark for Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Ltd., London.
It was part of the V&A's campaign to make the museum more attractive and accessible to the general public in the late 1980s. From the Museum's inception in 1852, its founding principle has been to make art and design accessible to all. The plain-spoken language in the poster's copy was meant to emphasize the easy, democratic nature of accessing the V&A collections. The work of art depicted in the poster is an ivory sculpture, Venus and Cupid, by Le Marchand.
It was part of the V&A's campaign to make the museum more attractive and accessible to the general public in the late 1980s. From the Museum's inception in 1852, its founding principle has been to make art and design accessible to all. The plain-spoken language in the poster's copy was meant to emphasize the easy, democratic nature of accessing the V&A collections. The work of art depicted in the poster is an ivory sculpture, Venus and Cupid, by Le Marchand.
Object details
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| Additional title | V & A an ace caff with quite a nice museum attached (series title) |
| Materials and techniques | colour offset lithograph |
| Brief description | 'Where else do they give you £100,000,000 worth of objets d'art free with every egg salad?'; Poster; Colour offset lithograph; From the campaign series 'V&A - An ace cafe with a nice museum attached', advertising the Victoria & Albert Museum; Art director, Paul Arden; Copywriter. Jeff Stark; Produced by Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Ltd.' Great Britain; 1988. |
| Physical description | 'Where else do they give you £100,000,000 worth of objets d'art free with every egg salad?'; Poster advertising the Victoria and Albert Museum; Depicting an ivory sculpture of Venus and Cupid by Le Marchand being held in a woman's manicured hand; Colour offset lithograph. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Where else do they give you £100, 000, 000 worth of objets d'art free with every egg salad? (English; centre lower margin) |
| Object history | From the campaign series 'V&A - An ace cafe with a nice museum attached', advertising the Victoria & Albert Museum. |
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| Summary | This poster was one of six in the campaign series 'V&A: An ace caff, with quite a nice museum attached', produced by Paul Arden and Jeff Stark for Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Ltd., London. It was part of the V&A's campaign to make the museum more attractive and accessible to the general public in the late 1980s. From the Museum's inception in 1852, its founding principle has been to make art and design accessible to all. The plain-spoken language in the poster's copy was meant to emphasize the easy, democratic nature of accessing the V&A collections. The work of art depicted in the poster is an ivory sculpture, Venus and Cupid, by Le Marchand. |
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| Bibliographic reference | 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 |
| Other number | 1/D12 - V&A microfiche |
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| Accession number | E.515-1988 |
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| Record created | February 11, 2004 |
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