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'Stitch, stitch, stitch...'

Poster
ca.1906 (printed and published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Colour lithograph, lettered with slogans, four lines of verse and stamped in red 'No.51'.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Title'Stitch, stitch, stitch...' (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph.
Brief description
'Stitch, stitch stitch...' Political poster issued by the Unionist Party satirising the issue of Free Trade in the general election, 1906, with a quotation from the poem 'The Song of the Shirt' by Thomas Hood. Colour lithograph, printed and published by Dobson, Molle & Co., Ltd., Edinburgh and London.
Physical description
Colour lithograph, lettered with slogans, four lines of verse and stamped in red 'No.51'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 101.5cm
  • Width: 76.2cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1968 London: HMSO, 1969.
Marks and inscriptions
'No. 51' (Lettered with slogans, 4 lines of verse and stamped in red)
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1968 London: HMSO, 1969.
Collection
Accession number
E.179-1968

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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