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Royal Flush

Poster
1982 (made)
Artist/Maker
V&A (issued by)
Gavin Martin Associates Ltd. (printers)
Bird, Nicky (designer)
Place of origin
United Kingdom (made)

Poster depicting a drawing of a water closet

Object details

Categories
Posters
Advertising
Museums
Object type
poster
TitleRoyal Flush (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph on paper
Paper
Colour Lithograph
Brief description
Poster, designed by Nicky Bird under the pseudonym Rick Pay-Tapp, entitled 'Royal Flush', issued as an April Fools Day spoof, advertising a non-existent series of exhibition about water closets, April 1982
Physical description
Poster depicting a drawing of a water closet
Dimensions
  • Average size height: 76.1cm (Note: Taken from R.P. 91/1445 Catalogue Sheet)
  • Average size width: 50.8cm (Note: Taken from R.P. 91/1445 Catalogue Sheet)
Object history
Poster designed by Nicky Bird as an April Fools Day spoof. He was once a member of museum staff in the Publications Department of the V&A and the poster advertises a non-existent series of joke exhibitions. The pseudonym Rick Pay-Tapp is an anagram of Patrick Yapp who designed many books for the V&A when Bird was Publications Officer.
Production
Rick Pay-Tapp is a psendonym
Subject depicted
Toilet
Bibliographic references
  • Taken from R.P. 91/1445 Acquisition Form
  • Taken from R.P. 91/1445 Catalogue Sheet
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, et al. The Victoria and Albert Museum : A Bibliography and Exhibition Chronology, 1852-1996. Fitzroy Dearborn Pub. in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1998. p.578.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2103-1991

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Record createdApril 9, 2008
Record URL
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