Printing Plate
ca.1945 (made)
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This is a zinc plate used for a poster designed by artist, Barnett Freedman (1901-1958), a leading poster designer and typographer. The grainy appearance of the image is typical of the effects achieved with lithographic chalks. The poster was printed using offset lithography, where a second cylinder picks up an image from a printing plate before transferring it onto paper. We know this because the portraits on this plate are the same orientation as in the poster, rather than in reverse. Zinc plates were used in offset lithography, because they could be curved around the printing cylinders. Other plates (not in the collection) reproduced the bands of colour and the text.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Zinc plate |
| Brief description | Lithographed zinc printing plate. Barnett Freedman. A design of three actors' portraits used in the poster advertising the film 'Johnny Frenchman' produced by Ealing Studios, Great Britain, ca.1945. |
| Physical description | Zinc printing plate with design of three actors' portraits; showing the faces of two woman and in the centre a man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'for film "Johnny Frenchman" 1945 / FREEDMAN BARNETT' (Lettered in pencil on reverse of plate.) |
| Object history | This plate was designed to advertise the film 'Johnny Frenchman', produced by Ealing Studios, 1945. |
| Production | E.341-1964 is an example of the final poster design made using this plate. |
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| Summary | This is a zinc plate used for a poster designed by artist, Barnett Freedman (1901-1958), a leading poster designer and typographer. The grainy appearance of the image is typical of the effects achieved with lithographic chalks. The poster was printed using offset lithography, where a second cylinder picks up an image from a printing plate before transferring it onto paper. We know this because the portraits on this plate are the same orientation as in the poster, rather than in reverse. Zinc plates were used in offset lithography, because they could be curved around the printing cylinders. Other plates (not in the collection) reproduced the bands of colour and the text. |
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| Accession number | E.342-1964 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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