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The Oast House

Poster Design
1927-29 (made)
Artist/Maker
Leighton, Clare Veronica Hope (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

Original watercolour and Indian ink design for one sheet of a six sheet poster issued by the Empire Marketing Board to promote English produce (see E.448-1932). Signed.

Object details

Categories
Designs
Advertising
Posters
Object type
Poster Design
TitleThe Oast House
Materials and techniques
Watercolour and Indian ink drawing
Water-Colour
Indian Ink
Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description
'The Oast House'. Original watercolour and Indian ink design for one sheet of a six sheet poster issued by the Empire Marketing Board to promote English produce. By Clare Veronica Hope Leighton, Great Britain, 1929.
Physical description
Original watercolour and Indian ink design for one sheet of a six sheet poster issued by the Empire Marketing Board to promote English produce (see E.448-1932). Signed.
Dimensions
  • Height: 102.4cm
  • Width: 64.2cm
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.
Credit line
Given by the Empire Marketing Board.
Production
This is the design for one sheet of a six sheet poster issued by the Empire Marketing Board, see E.448-1932.
Subject depicted
Oast House
Associated object
E.448-1932
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
25/B3 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.333-1934

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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