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Renaissance Silk

Poster
1951 (published)
Artist/Maker
Beaton, Cecil (Sir) (designer)
Place of origin
London (published)

Colour poster.

Object details

Categories
Posters
Textiles
Advertising
Prints
Object type
Poster
TitleRenaissance Silk (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour process engraving
Printing Ink
Process Engraving
Brief description
Cecil Beaton. 'Renaissance Silk'. Poster advertising the International Silk Congress in London, 1951.
Physical description
Colour poster.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 76.2cm
  • Sheet width: 50.8cm
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
'Beaton'

Note
Signed
Credit line
Given by the Editor of Modern Publicity
Object history
This poster was reproduced in colour on p.25 of Modern Publicity 1952-1953, The Studio Publications, 1952.
Bibliographic references
  • 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
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
  • Miller, Lesley Ellis, and Ana Cabrera Lafuente, with Claire Allen-Johnstone, eds. Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2021. ISBN 978-0-500-48065-6. This object features in the publication Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion (2021)
Other number
3/G5 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1924-1952

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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