Request to view

This object can be requested via email from the Prints & Drawings Study Room

Image of Gallery in South Kensington

We don’t have an image of this object online yet.

More about images

V&A Images may have a photograph that we can’t show online, but it may be possible to supply one to you. Email us at vaimages@vam.ac.uk for guidance about fees and timescales, quoting the accession number: E.446:1-1932

'Buy Home-Grown Apples', etc.

Poster
1929 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Empire Marketing Board (issuer)
Herrick, Frederick Charles (designer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

One sheet of a colour lithograph poster (on five sheets). Signed.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Posters
Object type
Poster
Title'Buy Home-Grown Apples', etc.
Materials and techniques
Colour lithography
Printing Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Buy Home-Grown Apples', etc.. One sheet of a colour lithograph poster (on five sheets). Designed by Frederick Charles Herrick. Issued by the Empire Marketing Board. Great Britain. 1929.
Physical description
One sheet of a colour lithograph poster (on five sheets). Signed.
Dimensions
  • Overall size height: 584.2cm
  • Overall size width: 116.2cm
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
Marks and inscriptions
Signed.
Credit line
Given by the Empire Marketing Board
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • 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
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1932. London: HMSO, 1933
Other number
19/B4-B8 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.446:1-1932

About this object record

Explore the Collections contains over a million catalogue records, and over half a million images. It is a working database that includes information compiled over the life of the museum. Some of our records may contain offensive and discriminatory language, or reflect outdated ideas, practice and analysis. We are committed to addressing these issues, and to review and update our records accordingly.

You can write to us to suggest improvements to the record.

Suggest feedback

Record createdJune 8, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O240353/buy-home-grown-apples-etc-poster-herrick-frederick-charles/
Download as: JSON