Not on display

McVitie & Price's Digestive

Poster
c. 1930 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Poster advertising McVitie & Price's, with a little boy sitting on a tin of digestive biscuits. In its original wooden frame, carved four times with the name McVitie & Price.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleMcVitie & Price's Digestive (published title)
Materials and techniques
colour lithograph on paper
Brief description
'McVitie & Price's Digestive', colour lithograph, c. 1930
Physical description
Poster advertising McVitie & Price's, with a little boy sitting on a tin of digestive biscuits. In its original wooden frame, carved four times with the name McVitie & Price.
Dimensions
  • Frame height: 670mm
  • Frame width: 540mm
  • Frame depth: 23mm
Object history
The boy on the poster, Edward Yerbury, was the son of the Edinburgh photographer who took the original picture.
Collection
Accession number
E.2197-1983

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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