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Drawing, Design for "The Telephone at Your Service"
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer and made for (as the client) British General Post Office. It is dated April 9, 1937 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is brush and gouache, graphite on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Mrs. Edward McKnight Kauffer.
It is credited Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- Cane, I-Cane (No Country For Old Men: Together Canes)
- maple and lacquered mdf, cut with cnc tools.
- Courtesy of Lanzavecchia + Wai Design Studio.
- 4.2013.1
- Frankfurt Telephone Telephone
- enameled and nickel-plated brass, bakelite (tm), woven textile (cord).
- Gift of George R. Kravis II.
- 2018-22-45
- Poster, Contact with the World, Use the Telephone
- lithograph.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-62
Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.
- Poster, Posting Box at Land's End, Outposts of Britain
- lithograph.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-88
Its dimensions are
26.6 × 17.8 cm (10 1/2 × 7 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamp in ink, verso: 9 April 1937
It is signed
Signed in blue gouache, lower right: E.McK.K.
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, upper right: No. 1
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for "The Telephone at Your Service"; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); Client: British General Post Office; England; brush and gouache, graphite on paper; 26.6 × 17.8 cm (10 1/2 × 7 in.); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-524
