Poster
1932 (made)
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Pictorial and typographic. The image on the poster shows a group of tigers bottom left and a growling tiger clawing the diagonal strip which runs across the poster with the wording that advertises the fact that the circus came from Olympia, London.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Ink on card |
| Brief description | Hanging card advertising Bertram Mills' Circus and Menagerie, featuring Matthies' Tigers, Slough 1932 |
| Physical description | Pictorial and typographic. The image on the poster shows a group of tigers bottom left and a growling tiger clawing the diagonal strip which runs across the poster with the wording that advertises the fact that the circus came from Olympia, London. |
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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. |
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| Accession number | S.782-1984 |
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| Record created | July 23, 2010 |
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