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Artist/Maker	Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (studio) Osiris Visions Ltd (publisher) English, Michael (designer) Weymouth, Nigel (designer)
Place of origin	London (published)

Colour screen-print poster in pink, black and gold, with a cartoon image of young hippy lovers kissing, advertising Love Me Film Productions Ltd, London. Lettered 'Jacob and the Coloured Coat' etc., and numbered 'OA 301'.

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Categories	Prints Advertising Posters
Object type	Poster
Materials and techniques	Colour screen-print Screen Printing
Brief description	Colour screen-print poster in pink, black and gold, with a cartoon image of young hippy lovers kissing, advertising Love Me Film Productions Ltd, London. Designed by the Studio of Hapshash and the Coloured Coat. Published by Osiris Visions Ltd., London, 1967.
Physical description	Colour screen-print poster in pink, black and gold, with a cartoon image of young hippy lovers kissing, advertising Love Me Film Productions Ltd, London. Lettered 'Jacob and the Coloured Coat' etc., and numbered 'OA 301'.
Dimensions	Height: 49.5cm Width: 36.1cm Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1968. London: HMSO, 1969.
Marks and inscriptions	'Jacob and the Coloured Coat' (Lettered.) 'OA 301' (Numbered.)
Object history	"Hapshash and the Coloured Coat" and "Jacob and the Coloured Coat" are studio names adopted by two English artists who cooperate to produce the posters: Michael English (born 1942), and Nigel Waymouth.
Subjects depicted	Film-Makers Kissing
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 numbers	OA 301. - Poster number 17/A6 - V&A microfiche
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.40-1968

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O693282/poster-english-michael/

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