'And because the breath of flowers...'

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Artist/Maker	London Transport Board (issued by) Grose, Louise (artist)
Place of origin	London (issued)

Colour offset lithograph poster with lettering beginning 'And because the breath of flowers...', advertising the free leaflet Flowers in London, issued by the London Transport Board. Lettered 'Louise Grose'.

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Categories	Prints Advertising Transport Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	'And because the breath of flowers...' (series title)
Materials and techniques	Colour offset lithography Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description	'And because the breath of flowers...' Colour offset lithograph poster advertising the free leaflet 'Flowers in London', issued by the London Transport Board. Design by Louise Grose. Great Britain. 1968.
Physical description	Colour offset lithograph poster with lettering beginning 'And because the breath of flowers...', advertising the free leaflet Flowers in London, issued by the London Transport Board. Lettered 'Louise Grose'.
Dimensions	Height: 101cm Width: 63.5cm Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1968. London: HMSO, 1969.
Marks and inscriptions	'Louise Grose' (Lettered.)
Credit line	Given by the London Transport Board
Subject depicted	Flowers (Plants)
Place depicted	London
Bibliographic references	Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1968 London: HMSO, 1969. 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	16/F1 - V&A microfiche
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.787-1968

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O692632/and-because-the-breath-of-poster-grose-louise/

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