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Advertising shot showing gas cooker

Photograph
ca. 1935 (Photographed)
Artist/Maker
Colour Photographs Limited (photographer)
Place of origin
London (Photographed)

A mounted colour photograph of a standing woman wearing a blue flower print dress holding a brown ceramic serving dish while turning on a gas oven.

Object details

Categories
The Royal Photographic Society
Photographs
Household Objects
Object type
photograph
Titles
  • Advertising shot showing gas cooker (generic title)
  • Photographic Survey and Record of Surrey (series title)
Materials and techniques
Vivex print
Photographic Paper
Photography
Three-Colour Carbro Process
Brief description
Photograph by Colour Photographs Limited, 'Adverstising shot showing gas cooker', Vivex colour print, ca. 1935
Physical description
A mounted colour photograph of a standing woman wearing a blue flower print dress holding a brown ceramic serving dish while turning on a gas oven.
Dimensions
  • Paper height: 41cm
  • Mount width: 31cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'COPYRIGHT / VIVEX NATURAL COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH WHEN RE-ORDERING PLEASE QUOTE / A828/8/OBE / VIVEX NATURAL COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH BY COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS LIMITED Process of COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS LTD, Victoria Rd., London, N.W. 10 Te. Wil.: 7300' (ink stamps, pencil)
  • 'ANON WOMEN IN KITCHEN C.1935 / Unknown Pleasures, NMPFT, Jan-Mar 2003' (pencil, verso, mount)
Credit line
The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund
Subjects depicted
Kitchens
Ovens
Housewives
Place depicted
London
Other numbers
  • 23455 - Royal Photographic Society number
  • 15383 - RPS identifier - inventory no.
  • A9 - RPS identifier - box number
  • 2003-5001-2-20186 - Science Museum Group accession number
Collection
Department of Photography
Accession number
RPS.1088-2022

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Record createdOctober 31, 2022
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1733384/advertising-shot-showing-gas-cooker-photograph-colour-photographs-limited/
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