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Bisto For All Meat Dishes

Poster
ca.1925 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

'Bisto For All Meat Dishes. "Ah! Bisto"'. Colour lithograph poster advertising Bisto gravy powder, showing two children sitting eagerly at a dinner table. 'BISTO' lettered in large black letters, outlined in yellow, across the top of the design.

Object details

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Object type
TitleBisto For All Meat Dishes
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Brief description
'Bisto For All Meat Dishes. "Ah! Bisto"'. Colour lithograph poster advertising Bisto gravy powder. Designed by Will Owen and issued by Cerebos Ltd., Great Britain, ca.1925.
Physical description
'Bisto For All Meat Dishes. "Ah! Bisto"'. Colour lithograph poster advertising Bisto gravy powder, showing two children sitting eagerly at a dinner table. 'BISTO' lettered in large black letters, outlined in yellow, across the top of the design.
Dimensions
  • Height: 303.2cm
  • Width: 201.1cm
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
  • 'BISTO' (Text of design lettered in large black letters outlined in yellow.)
  • 'FOR ALL / MEAT DISHES' (Lettered in white as part of design.)
  • '"Ah Bisto!"' (Lettered in a black, cursive font in the bottom-right corner of the design.)
Subjects depicted
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
29/C2 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Accession number
E.782-1976

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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