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Poster

1932 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Underground Electric Railways Company of London Ltd (issued by)
Cooper, Austin (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

Colour lithograph poster with a design featuring a ceramic pot, plate and camel, advertising the Victoria & Albert Museum. Signed.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Entertainment & Leisure
Tiles
History of the V&A
Posters
Object type
Poster
Materials and techniques
Colour lithography
Lithographic Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Ceramics at the Victoria & Albert Museum'. Colour lithograph poster with a design featuring a ceramic pot, plate and camel. Design by Austin Cooper. Issued by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd. Great Britain. 1932.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster with a design featuring a ceramic pot, plate and camel, advertising the Victoria & Albert Museum. Signed.
Dimensions
  • Height: 103cm
  • Width: 64.2cm
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.)
Credit line
Given by the Underground Electric Railways Co.
Subjects depicted
Ceramics
Camel
Pot
Place depicted
Victoria and Albert Museum
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 & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1933, London: Printed under the Authority of the Board of Education 1934
Other number
9/C4 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.399-1933

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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