Not on display

Poster

1931 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Pictorial and typographic. The image shows a portrait head of Zaro Agha, a lady in a yashmak behind him.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Printed ink on card
Brief description
Hanging card advertising Bertram Mills' Circus and Menagerie, featuring Zaro Agha, the Oldest Man in the World, Bedford 1931
Physical description
Pictorial and typographic. The image shows a portrait head of Zaro Agha, a lady in a yashmak behind him.
Dimensions
  • Poster height: 40.4cm
  • Poster width: 30.3cm
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.
Collection
Accession number
S.753-1984

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Record createdJuly 23, 2010
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