Poster
Poster
1925-1926 (made)
1925-1926 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Poster advertising Bertram Mills' Circus, Olympia, 1925 to 1926. Featuring a lion and entitled: 'Look Out - Seventy Are Coming!'
Object details
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| Title | Poster (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Printed ink on paper |
| Brief description | Poster advertising Bertram Mills' Circus, Olympia, 1925 to 1926. Featuring a lion and entitled: 'Look Out - Seventy Are Coming!' |
| Physical description | Pictorial and typographic advertisement poster. The image shows a roaring lion's head within a roundel. |
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| Object history | This poster was part of an advertising campaign featuring the 70 lions that performed in the 1925-1926 circus. Simply saying, 'Look out - seventy are coming!' it aimed to intrigue the public and to have a cumulative effect in conjunction with other posters mentioning the lions. For some of those see S.109-1994, S.112-1994, S.117-1994, S.772-1984 and S.2217-1994. Associated Production: Bertram Mills' Circus. Company: Captain Alfred's Lions. Olympia, London. 21.12.1925-23.1.1926. Performance category: circus. |
| Summary | Poster advertising Bertram Mills' Circus, Olympia, 1925 to 1926. Featuring a lion and entitled: 'Look Out - Seventy Are Coming!' |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | S.110-1994 |
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| Record created | July 23, 2010 |
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