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Buy Granny Takes a Trip and Join the Brain-Drain!

Poster
1968 (published)
Artist/Maker
Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (designer)
Osiris Visions Ltd (publisher)
English, Michael (artist)
Weymouth, Nigel (artist)
Place of origin
London (published)

Colour offset lithograph poster advertising the boutique 'Granny Takes A Trip' (owned by Nigel Waymouth) in the King's Road, London.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Fashion
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleBuy Granny Takes a Trip and Join the Brain-Drain! (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description
Colour offset lithograph poster advertising the boutique 'Granny Takes a Trip'. Designed by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat. Published by Osiris Visions, London, 1968.
Physical description
Colour offset lithograph poster advertising the boutique 'Granny Takes A Trip' (owned by Nigel Waymouth) in the King's Road, London.
Dimensions
  • Height: 74.2cm
  • Width: 50.5cm
Dimensions taken from: Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'HAPSHASH COLOURED COAT' (Signed in capitals.)
  • 'OA 602 PRINTED BY CHEVALIER-ROTTERDAM C. 1968 OSIRIS VISIONS LTD. 83 CHARLOTTE STREET W.1.' (Lettered in capitals)
Bibliographic references
  • Christoph Grunberg, ed. Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era London: Tate, 2005. 239 p. : ill. (some col.) ISBN: 1854375954.
  • Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Other numbers
  • OA 602 - Poster number
  • 17/A7 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.155-1986

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Record createdNovember 13, 2006
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O129173/buy-granny-takes-a-trip-poster-english-michael/
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