Royal Flush

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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

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Categories	Posters Advertising Museums
Object type	poster
Title	Royal 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 created	April 9, 2008
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O152397/royal-flush-poster-bird-nicky/

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