Home Gardens For Home Markets

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Artist/Maker	Empire Marketing Board (issuer) Nash, John Northcote (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (issued)

Original watercolour design for one sheet of a poster made up of six sheets. A colour illustration showing a scene of managed trees.

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Categories	Propaganda Prints Posters
Object type	Poster Design
Title	Home Gardens For Home Markets (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Pencil and watercolour drawing Pencil Water-Colour Drawing Painting (Image-Making)
Brief description	'Home Gardens For Home Markets'. Original watercolour design by John Nash, for one sheet of a poster made up of six sheets. The final poster was issued by the Empire Marketing Board, Great Britain, 1930.
Physical description	Original watercolour design for one sheet of a poster made up of six sheets. A colour illustration showing a scene of managed trees.
Dimensions	Height: 101.6cm Width: 153.7cm 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	Signed.
Credit line	Given by the Empire Marketing Board.
Object history	The purpose of the poster as a whole is to encourage the British public to celebrate and request home-grown produce.
Subjects depicted	British Empire Food Trees
Associated objects	E.449-1932 (Version) E.319-1934 E.169-1980 E.170-1980 E.172-1980 (Version) E.173-1980 E.174-1980 E.449:5-1932 (Version)
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 & Albert Museum Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings Accessions 1934 London: Published under the Authority of the Board of Education, 1935
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.318-1934

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1076460/home-gardens-for-home-markets-poster-design-nash-john-northcote/

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