Posters: stories from the V&A collection

'People watched for these quaint and dashing conceits'

During the past year I have been involved in a project to clear copyright permissions for posters in the Schreyer Collection. As well as involving research to identify rights holders; this work has given me the enviable opportunity to open drawers and boxes – allowing me to see many of the designs. Some of my favourite posters are those produced by literary publishing companies during the...
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Poster depicting woman standing in profile with a parasol
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Catherine Flood is a curator in the Word and Image Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum specialising in posters, graphics and ephemeral print. She is the author of British Posters: Advertising Art and Activism (V&A Publishing 2012) and has also published on London Transport posters and nineteenth century print culture. She has recently set up a Subject Specialist Network for posters and is currently researching protest posters. 

Anisa Hawes is an assistant curator in the Word and Image Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She has worked closely with both the Posters collections and the Photographs collections; assisting with the exhibitions Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton - A Diamond Jubilee Celebration and Light from the Middle East - New Photography

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