Take Your Share of Sunshine On The Southern Coast

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Artist/Maker	Southern Railway (issuer) Marton (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (issued)

'Take Your Share of Sunshine On The Southern Coast'. Colour lithograph poster with a design showing a disembodied hand emerging from a cloud, using a pair of scissors to cut into an illustration of the sun.

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Categories	Prints Advertising Transport Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Take Your Share of Sunshine On The Southern Coast
Materials and techniques	Colour lithograph Colour Lithography
Brief description	'Take Your Share of Sunshine On The Southern Coast'. Colour lithograph poster designed by Marton and issued by the Southern Railway, Great Britain, 1936.
Physical description	'Take Your Share of Sunshine On The Southern Coast'. Colour lithograph poster with a design showing a disembodied hand emerging from a cloud, using a pair of scissors to cut into an illustration of the sun.
Dimensions	Height: 101.2cm Width: 124.3cm Measurements taken from: 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
Marks and inscriptions	Signed and dated ''36'.
Subjects depicted	Hand Cloud Scissors Suns
Bibliographic references	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 Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1938, London: Board of Education, 1939.
Other number	26/C10 - V&A microfiche
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.2241-1938

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O732043/take-your-share-of-sunshine-poster-marton/

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