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Poster Design

1926 (made)
Artist/Maker
Fraser, Eric George (FSIA) (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

Preliminary study for the design of a poster advertising the 'Cup Final Wembley Saturday April 24th' (see E.540-1987). Drawn in body-colour, with marks of tested colour in left margin

Object details

Categories
POSTERS: ORIGINAL DESIGNS
Designs
Posters
Object type
Poster Design
Materials and techniques
Body-colour with marks of tested colour in left margin
Body Colour
Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description
Preliminary study for the design of a poster advertising the 'Cup Final Wembley Saturday April 24th' (see E.540-1987). Drawn in body-colour. By Eric George Fraser. Great Britain. 1926.
Physical description
Preliminary study for the design of a poster advertising the 'Cup Final Wembley Saturday April 24th' (see E.540-1987). Drawn in body-colour, with marks of tested colour in left margin
Dimensions
  • Height: 38.3cm
  • Width: 55.7cm
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
  • [?]position of Goal Posts/Ball [?]to be moved to right/ on a colour so that it can/ be in brown and Boots [?]Leavi's and Brwn...(the rest indecipherableand faintly scored out, and with scale note, probably for space allowed for lettering.) (Annotated in pencil.)
  • Eric Fraser (Inscribed in blue ink, probably by the artist's agent R.P. Gossop.)
Subject depicted
Sport
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
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
13/D9 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.541-1987

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Record createdJuly 27, 2000
Record URL
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