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Empire Buying Makes Busy Factories

Poster Design
c.1927-1928 (made)
Artist/Maker
Gardiner, Clive (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

'Electrical Machinery'. An original design, in body colour, for one part of a six part poster promoting the purchasing of goods produced by the British Empire. Signed.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Designs
Posters
Object type
Poster Design
Titles
  • Empire Buying Makes Busy Factories (series title)
  • Electrical Machinery
Materials and techniques
Body colour drawing
Body Colour
Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description
'Electrical Machinery'. An original design, in body colour, for one part of a six part poster (entitled 'Empire Buying Makes Busy Factories') promoting the purchasing of goods produced by the British Empire. By Clive Gardiner. Great Britain. c.1927-28.
Physical description
'Electrical Machinery'. An original design, in body colour, for one part of a six part poster promoting the purchasing of goods produced by the British Empire. Signed.
Dimensions
  • Height: 101.6cm
  • Width: 152.4cm
Dimensions 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 Empire Marketing Board.
Subjects depicted
British Empire
Industry
Machinery
Associated objects
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
Other number
14/G6 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.323-1934

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
Record URL
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