Drawing
ca.1931 (made)
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Design for a poster depicting a crowd of fashionable young men and women, some standing and some seated around tables. In the background a jazz band is playing (including a man on the grand piano and severl men playing brass instruments) and a woman in a blue dress is dancing.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tempera on paper |
| Brief description | Drawing by Harold Sandys Williamson, original design for poster advertising the Underground Railways, 'Why not the thrilling 'thirties?,' tempera, Britain, ca.1931 |
| Physical description | Design for a poster depicting a crowd of fashionable young men and women, some standing and some seated around tables. In the background a jazz band is playing (including a man on the grand piano and severl men playing brass instruments) and a woman in a blue dress is dancing. |
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| Credit line | Given by the Underground Electric Railways Co. |
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| Association | |
| Associated object | E.123-1932 (Object) |
| Bibliographic reference | Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1932. London: HMSO, 1933. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.125-1932 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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