Poster
1987 (made)
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Laminate, portrait oriented, poster with a pale yellow background. On the left is an illustration of a peacock with orange, red and blue feathers and a boat, with four rowers dressed in blue, adorned with floral decoration and headed by a peacock. On the left is a Chinese dragon in orange, red and blue and a blue boat, with nine rowers wearing red and a coxswain banging a drum, headed by a Chinese dragon's head.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Offset lithograph print on paper that has been laminated in plastic |
| Brief description | Poster produced for the Asian Water Sports Project to advertise the Bangladeshi and Chinese boats coming to Tower Hamlets, depicting a Bangladeshi Peacock Boat, a Chinese Dragon Boat, a peacock and a Chinese dragon, made by Basement Community Arts Workshop, printed on offset lithograph, 1987 |
| Physical description | Laminate, portrait oriented, poster with a pale yellow background. On the left is an illustration of a peacock with orange, red and blue feathers and a boat, with four rowers dressed in blue, adorned with floral decoration and headed by a peacock. On the left is a Chinese dragon in orange, red and blue and a blue boat, with nine rowers wearing red and a coxswain banging a drum, headed by a Chinese dragon's head. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'THE PEACOCK MEETS THE DRAGON' This is also written in Bengali and Chinese writing
'Traditional Bangladeshi Peacock Boats and Chinese Dragon Boats come to Tower Hamlets'
'Crews and Helpers wanted / contact the Asian Water Sports Project 48I 42I0 / a joint project between / the Chinese Association of Tower Hamlets / Sailors Home, Commercial Road, E.I. 5I5 5598 / the Golden Moon Project, 236 Cable Street, E.I. 790 4020 / the Shadwell Basin Projects, Pierhead, Glamis Road, E.I. 48I 42I6'
'Poster designed by the Basement 790 4020' |
| Credit line | Given by Greenwich Mural Workshop |
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| Bibliographic reference | From an exhibition by Greenwich Mural Workshop, 'Printing is Easy...? Community Printshops 1970-1986' |
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| Accession number | E.510-2013 |
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| Record created | November 20, 2013 |
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