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1943

  • Work on this object began.

1953

  • Work on this object ended.

1963

  • We acquired this object.

2013

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2024

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Print, Advertisement for Vulcain

This is a Print. It was designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer and made for (as the client) Manufacture des Montres Vulcain S.A.. It is dated ca. 1948 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is paper collage, offset lithograph on paper, mounted on thick black 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.

Its dimensions are

29.7 × 22.2 cm (11 11/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

It is signed

Printed in script, in white ink, lower right of advertisement: McKnight Kauffer; printed in black text on paper, collaged onto bottom right corner of black sheet of paper: E. McKnight Kauffer

Cite this object as

Print, Advertisement for Vulcain; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); Client: Manufacture des Montres Vulcain S.A.; USA; paper collage, offset lithograph on paper, mounted on thick black paper; 29.7 × 22.2 cm (11 11/16 × 8 3/4 in.); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-741

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