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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. 60th Birthday 21 April 1986

Poster
early 1986 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Pentagram Design Ltd. (designers)
CTD Printers Ltd. (printers)
Zaehnsdorf and Croft (manufacturers)
Kurlansky, Mervyn (designer)
Spoerl, Wolf (illustrator)
Place of origin
London (designed)

Colour offset lithograph poster celebrating Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's 60th Birthday on 21 April 1986. The design shows her face in profile created from red, yellow and green ribbons and lettered with verse from the Children’s song written for the occasion. All printed on a white ground.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleHer Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. 60th Birthday 21 April 1986
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description
'Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. 60th Birthday 21 April 1986'. Colour offset lithograph poster celebrating the occassion. Designed by Mervyn Kurlansky of Pentagram Design Ltd., Great Britain, 1986.
Physical description
Colour offset lithograph poster celebrating Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's 60th Birthday on 21 April 1986. The design shows her face in profile created from red, yellow and green ribbons and lettered with verse from the Children’s song written for the occasion. All printed on a white ground.
Dimensions
  • Height: 76.1cm
  • Width: 50.9cm
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
'Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II / 60th Birthday 21 April 1986' (Lettered around the Queen's profile as a circular frame.)
Object history
This poster was commissioned by the Queen's Birthday Committee.
Subjects depicted
Celebration
Elizabeth II (Queen of Great Britain)
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. 60th Birthday
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
30/D7 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1354-1986

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O539162/her-majesty-queen-elizabeth-ii-poster-kurlansky-mervyn/
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