A Sudan Cotton Field

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Artist/Maker	Empire Marketing Board (issuer) Edward Barnard Lintott (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (issued)

'A Sudan Cotton Field'. Small version, intended for use in schools, of a poster issued by the Empire Marketing Board. Signed 'Lintott' and numbered 'R.M.1.'.

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Categories	Prints Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	A Sudan Cotton Field
Materials and techniques	Colour lithograph Colour Lithography
Brief description	'A Sudan Cotton Field'. Colour lithograph poster designed by Edward Barnard Lintott. A small version of the poster first issued by the Empire Marketing Board in 1927.
Physical description	'A Sudan Cotton Field'. Small version, intended for use in schools, of a poster issued by the Empire Marketing Board. Signed 'Lintott' and numbered 'R.M.1.'.
Dimensions	Size of sheet height: 51.1cm Size of sheet width: 76.4cm Measurements 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	'Lintott' (Signed.) 'R.M.1.' (numbered)
Production	Small version, intended for use in schools, of a poster first issued by the Empire Marketing Board in 1927.
Subjects depicted	Agriculture Education Field
Place depicted	Sudan
Associated object	E.369-1988
Bibliographic references	Stephen Constantine, Buy & Build: The Advertising Posters of the Empire Marketing Board, London, 1986, pl.15. 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	25/D6 - V&A microfiche R.M.1. - numbered on sheet
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.368-1988

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Record created	November 24, 2008
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O173805/a-sudan-cotton-field-poster-edward-barnard-lintott/

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