Commercial lettering
Collection:Central Lettering Record
Date: 1960s-1980s
Artist: Alan Bartram
Dimensions:
Sheet: 96 × 254 mm (9.6 × 25.4 cm)
Medium: black & white photograph
Object number: CLR.2023.1140.M.1-3
DescriptionLettering shown on two commercial fascia panels, handpainted lowercase script (top: connected, brush, bottom: connected) letterforms, bottom example includes three-dimensional effect, reading: ’ELECTRICAL DEALER AND CONTRACTOR; DISPENSING CHEMIST’. Location: unknown At the back, another image, showing carved (v-section) capital and lowercase serif high contrast letterforms, including date, reading ’SCHOOL for the education and clothing of poor girls of Sherbone, founded by the Right Honourable William Lord Digby, 1743’. Location: Sherborne, South West England.
