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Poster, Reading the Typographic Landscape: An illustrated talk by Alastair Johnston

This is a Poster. It is dated 1980 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is mixed media, collage on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Frances Butler.

Its dimensions are

45 x 33 cm (17 11/16 x 13 in.)

It has the following markings

Inkless embossed stamp: FRANCES CLARK BUTLER COPYRIGHT

It is signed

Signed and dated in pen and blue ink at lower right: Frances Butler 1980

Cite this object as

Poster, Reading the Typographic Landscape: An illustrated talk by Alastair Johnston; USA; mixed media, collage on paper; 45 x 33 cm (17 11/16 x 13 in.); Gift of Frances Butler; 1991-69-87

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