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Paris for the weekend

Poster
1934 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Southern Railway (issuer)
Cooper, Austin (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

Portrait format poster advertising a weekend in Paris. Signed.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Transport
Entertainment & Leisure
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleParis for the weekend (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithography, paper
Paper
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Paris for the weekend,' colour lithograph poster, designed by Austin Cooper, issued by the Southern Railway, Great Britain, 1934.
Physical description
Portrait format poster advertising a weekend in Paris. Signed.
Dimensions
  • Height: 101.5cm
  • Width: 63.3cm
Dimensions 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.)
Place depicted
Paris
Associated object
CIRC.617-1965
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 & Albert Museum Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings Accessions 1934 London: Published under the Authority of the Board of Education, 1935
Other number
9/C9 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3471-1934

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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