Publisher. Children's Books.

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V&A South Kensington
British Galleries, Room 125, Edwin and Susan Davies Gallery

Artist/Maker	Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent (designer)
Place of origin	Great Britain (issued)

'Publisher. Children’s Books'; Poster advertising children’s books published by T. Fisher Unwin; On the left of the sheet, showing a woman, with a feather in her hair, seated in an armchair reading a book. On the right of the sheet, text detailing book titles, prices etc.; Colour lithograph; Signed.

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Categories	Advertising Prints Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Publisher. Children's Books. (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Colour lithograph Paper Colour Lithography
Brief description	'Publisher. Children’s Books'; Poster advertising children’s books published by T. Fisher Unwin; Showing a woman, with a feather in her hair, reading a book; Colour lithograph; Signed; Design by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley; Great Britain; 1894.
Physical description	'Publisher. Children’s Books'; Poster advertising children’s books published by T. Fisher Unwin; On the left of the sheet, showing a woman, with a feather in her hair, seated in an armchair reading a book. On the right of the sheet, text detailing book titles, prices etc.; Colour lithograph; Signed.
Dimensions	Width: 76.2cm Length: 51.1cm Dimensions taken from: 'Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1966' published by HMSO 1967
Marks and inscriptions	'AUBREY BEARDSLEY' (Signed with the artist's emblem and name in capitals.)
Subjects depicted	Woman Feather Chair Book
Associated objects	E.3162-1914 (Duplicate) E.369-1921 (Duplicate)
Bibliographic references	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1966 pub. HMSO 1967 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
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.956-1966

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O695338/publisher-childrens-books-poster-beardsley-aubrey-vincent/

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