Not currently on display at the V&A

Poster

1935 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Pictorial and typographic. The image is of a cartoon-style smiling clown's face, his glasses being the two 'o's' of the word 'Book' and in his smiling mouth the word 'here'


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Printed ink on paper
Brief description
Poster advertising a box office for Bertram Mills' Circus, Olympia, 1935
Physical description
Pictorial and typographic. The image is of a cartoon-style smiling clown's face, his glasses being the two 'o's' of the word 'Book' and in his smiling mouth the word 'here'
Dimensions
  • Poster height: 76.3cm
  • Poster width: 31.2cm
Object history
This poster of mounted on the back of a poster advertising Greta Garbo in the film of Somerset Maugham's play 'The Painted Devil', Empire Theatre, Leicester Square. Associated Production: Bertram Mills' Circus. 20.12.1935-24.1.1936. Performance category: circus.
Collection
Accession number
S.4171-1995

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Record createdJuly 30, 2010
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