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For The Zoo

Poster
1933 (designed), 1933 (issued)
Artist/Maker
London Passenger Transport Board (issued by)
Miles, Maurice A. (artist)
Place of origin
London (issued)

Colour lithograph poster advertising London Zoo. The main design is of an elephant, with the text in yellow below.

Object details

Categories
Advertising
Prints
Entertainment & Leisure
Transport
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleFor The Zoo
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Lithographic Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'For The Zoo'. Colour lithograph poster featuring an elephant, advertising London Zoo. Designed by Maurice A. Miles and issued by the London Passenger Transport Board, 1933.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster advertising London Zoo. The main design is of an elephant, with the text in yellow below.
Dimensions
  • Height: 100.5cm
  • Width: 63.5cm
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
'M. A. Miles 1933'

Note
Signed and dated.
Credit line
Given by the London Passenger Transport Board
Subject depicted
Elephant
Place depicted
London Zoo
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 1936, London: Board of Education, 1937.
Other number
27/A3 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.17-1936

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O736545/for-the-zoo-poster-miles-maurice-a/
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