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"Just A wee Deoch-An-Doris"

Poster
1925 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Colour lithograph poster advertising Bisto gravy powder. The design shows two characters wearing scottish kilts with a red and yellow tartan, with '"Just A wee Deoch-An-Doris"' lettered above the image and 'Bisto For Tempting Hashes' lettered below in black and red.

Object details

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Object type
Title"Just A wee Deoch-An-Doris"
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Brief description
'"Just A wee Deoch-An-Doris". Bisto For Tempting Hashes'. Colourlithograph poster advertising Bisto gravy powder. Probably designed by Will Owen and issued by Cerebos Ltd., London, 1925.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster advertising Bisto gravy powder. The design shows two characters wearing scottish kilts with a red and yellow tartan, with '"Just A wee Deoch-An-Doris"' lettered above the image and 'Bisto For Tempting Hashes' lettered below in black and red.
Dimensions
  • Height: 303.3cm
  • Width: 204.5cm
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
  • 'OLD SONGS REVIVED' (Lettered in black, on white, across the top of the design.)
  • '"JUST A WEE / DEOCH-AN-DORIS"' (Lettered below.)
  • 'BISTO' (Lettered in black below the image.)
  • 'For / TEMPTING HASHES' (Lettered in red below.)
Subject depicted
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
29/C4 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Accession number
E.783-1976

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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