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Artist/Maker	London Passenger Transport Board (issued by) Mansbridge, John (designer)
Place of origin	London (issued)

Colour lithograph poster in ochre, brown, blue, grey and black, depicting the interior of a barn, with four men in the midst of shearing sheep, with one sheep on its back in the lower foreground and another behind. Through the open doorway are buildings and fields.

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Categories	Advertising Animals and Wildlife Landscapes Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	North (published title)
Materials and techniques	Colour lithograph Lithographic Ink Colour Lithography
Brief description	Colour lithograph poster, 'North', designed by John Mansbridge, issued by the London Passenger Transport Board, 1935
Physical description	Colour lithograph poster in ochre, brown, blue, grey and black, depicting the interior of a barn, with four men in the midst of shearing sheep, with one sheep on its back in the lower foreground and another behind. Through the open doorway are buildings and fields.
Dimensions	Height: 40in Width: 25in Measurements taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Register for 1961.
Marks and inscriptions	'Mansbridge '35' (Signed by the designer in the lower left hand corner.) 'NORTH' (Printed text in the lower centre.)
Subjects depicted	Fields Barns Sheep Sheep Shearing Men
Bibliographic reference	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Register for 1961
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.156-1961

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1042776/north-poster-mansbridge-john/

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