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Empire Air Mail Scheme

Poster
ca.1937 (issued)
Artist/Maker
General Post Office (issuer)
Peingdnum (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

Colour lithograph poster with a text design advertising the Empire Air Mail Scheme. The various lines of text are written in black, red, yellow and blues against a ground colour that dissolves horizontally from dark to pale grey.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleEmpire Air Mail Scheme
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Colour Lithography
Brief description
Colour lithograph poster with a text design advertising the Empire Air Mail Scheme. Designed by Peingdnum and issued by the General Post Office, Great Britain, ca.1937.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster with a text design advertising the Empire Air Mail Scheme. The various lines of text are written in black, red, yellow and blues against a ground colour that dissolves horizontally from dark to pale grey.
Dimensions
  • Height: 76.2cm
  • Width: 50.7cm
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
  • 'EMPIRE / AIRMAIL / SCHEME' (Title text of design, lettered in blue and red)
  • 'letters / postcards' (Text of design, lettered in blue italics)
  • '1 1/2d HALF OUNCE' (Text of design lettered in black and yellow)
  • Signed
Subjects depicted
Postal Service
Text
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/B5 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.134-1976

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O556694/empire-air-mail-scheme-poster-peingdnum/
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