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Too True To Be Good

Poster
ca.1932 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Moody Brothers (issued by)
Knight, Laura (Dame) (artist)
Unknown (maker)
Place of origin
London (issued)
Birmingham (made)

Colour lithograph poster for a touring production of 'A Silent Accuser'

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Entertainment & Leisure
Posters
Object type
Poster
Titles
  • Too True To Be Good
  • Poster for a touring production of 'A Silent Accuser' (generic title)
Materials and techniques
colour lithograph
Paper
Lithography
Colour Lithograph
Brief description
'Too True To Be Good'. Lithograph poster advertising a production of the play by George Bernard Shaw. Designed by Dame Laura Knight, Great Britain, ca.1932.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster for a touring production of 'A Silent Accuser'
Dimensions
  • Height: 75.1cm
  • Width: 51cm
  • Height: 19in
  • Width: 29in
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1935 London: HMSO, 1935.
Marks and inscriptions
Signed.
Object history
This poster is possibly advertising the theatrical production at the New Theatre, London, 13 September 1932.
Production
This poster is possibly advertising the theatrical production at the New Theatre, London, 13 September 1932.
Subject depicted
Theatre
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 Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1935 London: HMSO, 1935
Other number
24/D5 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1203-1935

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O737358/too-true-to-be-good-poster-knight-laura-dame/
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