Poster
ca. 1945
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Pictorial and typographic poster for Ashton's Circus and Zoo. Stuck to the poster and extending from the top of it is an overposter slip detailing the dates, place, and time of performance at Mount Beauty, and listing the acts: Captain Schultz (lion trainer), Lorraine Ashton ('whips and quips), Mervyn Ashton, Gary ('globe trotter') Grant, Leo St. Leon (jockey rider), Theo Trio (musical clowns), Miss Marie (contortionist), Phyllis and Douglas (equestrian performers), Flying Ashtons (aerial artists), Ashton's Amazing Elephants (elephant act), Theo Zaccine Trio (musical clowns).
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Printing ink on paper |
| Brief description | Poster advertising Ashton's Circus and Zoo at Mount Beauty, Australia |
| Physical description | Pictorial and typographic poster for Ashton's Circus and Zoo. Stuck to the poster and extending from the top of it is an overposter slip detailing the dates, place, and time of performance at Mount Beauty, and listing the acts: Captain Schultz (lion trainer), Lorraine Ashton ('whips and quips), Mervyn Ashton, Gary ('globe trotter') Grant, Leo St. Leon (jockey rider), Theo Trio (musical clowns), Miss Marie (contortionist), Phyllis and Douglas (equestrian performers), Flying Ashtons (aerial artists), Ashton's Amazing Elephants (elephant act), Theo Zaccine Trio (musical clowns). |
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| Credit line | Given by the Norfolk Rural Life Museum |
| Object history | This poster was part of a collection of circus and theatre posters and ephemera collected by John Bates and given to the Norfolk Rural Life Museum by his widow. As the collection fell outside its collecting remit, the Rural Life Museum gave it to the V&A Theatre Museum. |
| Production | Poster: S. A. Best Pty. Ltd., overposter: Messenger Press Ltd. |
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| Accession number | S.719-1984 |
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| Record created | July 23, 2010 |
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