John Donne English Poet (1571-1631)

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Artist/Maker	Pentagram Design Ltd. (designers) CTD Printers Ltd. (printers) Zaehnsdorf and Croft (manufacturers) Fletcher, Alan (designer)
Place of origin	London (made)

Poster featuring green rectangle, the top left corner of which has been separated as though torn off and quotation in the separate corner; "No man is an island entire of itself, every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." Made for IBM Charitable Contributions Campaign.

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Categories	Prints Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	John Donne English Poet (1571-1631) (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Screenprint on paper Ink Paper Screen Printing
Brief description	Poster (John Donne), designed by Alan Fletcher, Pentagram, printed by G+B Arts; British, ca. 1981-1996
Physical description	Poster featuring green rectangle, the top left corner of which has been separated as though torn off and quotation in the separate corner; "No man is an island entire of itself, every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." Made for IBM Charitable Contributions Campaign.
Dimensions	Height: 84.5cm Width: 59cm
Production type	Mass produced
Marks and inscriptions	JOHN DONNE ENGLISH POET (1571-1631) (In black bottom left corner) A PENTAGRAM POSTER. DESIGN ALAN FLETCHER. PRINT G+B ARTS LONDON. (In black top right corner, vertically) "No man is an island / entire of itself, / every man is a piece / of the continent, / a part of the main." (In white against green, top left corner)
Credit line	Given by Alan Fletcher
Object history	Part of a gift from Alan Fletcher of his archive to represent his design output from the 1970s to the present day.
Bibliographic reference	Myerson, Jeremy. Beware wet paint: designs by Alan Fletcher. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1996.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.409-2003

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Record created	May 13, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O232100/john-donne-english-poet-1571-poster-fletcher-alan/

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