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Cattle Raising - Australia

Poster
1927 (made)
Artist/Maker
Empire Marketing Board (issued by)
Brown, F. Gregory (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

'Cattle Raising - Australia'. Small version, re-printed for use in schools, of the poster first issued by the Empire Marketing Board in 1927. Signed Gregory Brown. Numbered R.K.5. Inscribed in pencil in another hand C.R.S.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleCattle Raising - Australia
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Cattle Raising - Australia'; Small version, re-printed for use in schools, of the poster issued by the Empire Marketing Board in 1927; Colour lithograph; Design by F. Gregory Brown; Great Britain.
Physical description
'Cattle Raising - Australia'. Small version, re-printed for use in schools, of the poster first issued by the Empire Marketing Board in 1927. Signed Gregory Brown. Numbered R.K.5. Inscribed in pencil in another hand C.R.S.
Dimensions
  • Size of sheet height: 50cm
  • Size of sheet width: 73.4cm
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
Production
Re-printed for use in schools, small version of the Poster first issued by the Empire Marketing Board in 1927.
Subject depicted
Cattle
Place depicted
Australia
Bibliographic references
  • Stephen Constantine, Buy & Build: The Advertising Posters of the Empire Marketing Board, London, 1986, pl.13.
  • 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 number
7/A8 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.365-1988

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Record createdNovember 24, 2008
Record URL
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