Archy Does His Part

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Artist/Maker	Faber & Faber (publisher) Edward Bawden (designed)
Place of origin	London (published)

Above a cockroach reads a letter and another climbs over a typewriter. Below two coackroaches in a basement with a pear and a bottle.

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Categories	Prints Books
Object type	Print
Title	Archy Does His Part (published title)
Materials and techniques	Colour lithograph Printing Ink Paper Colour Lithography
Brief description	Book jacket for Archy Does His Part (Don Marquis), designed by Edward Bawden, published by Faber. Lithograph; British, 1936.
Physical description	Above a cockroach reads a letter and another climbs over a typewriter. Below two coackroaches in a basement with a pear and a bottle.
Dimensions	Height: 19.2cm Width: 17.2cm
Marks and inscriptions	archy does his part (repeated on front and spine and partially on typewriter) faber don marquis EB (Signed by artist on plate)
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	C.17904B

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Record created	August 28, 2013
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1271171/archy-does-his-part-print-edward-bawden/

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