Phoenix Fireworks : sold here / M
- Bib ID:
- 6390006
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Mercier, Emile, 1901-1981, artist
- Related Online Resources:
- POSTER 2022-5596 copy
- Printer:
- Melbourne : Modern Printer Co.
- Description:
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- [Melbourne] : [Phoenix Fireworks], [between 1940 and 1959]
- 1 poster : colour ; 22 x 47 cm
- Summary:
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Advertisement for Phoenix Fireworks. Poster of artwork depicting a man and two boys and a girl around a Guy Fawkes Night (November 5) scarecrow dressed in old clothes. A bonfire is burning in the foreground. They are all playing and having fun with sparklers. A grey dog is chasing them. Other multicoloured fireworks light up the night sky.
- Biography/History:
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"Phoenix Fireworks began manufacturing fireworks in Sunshine, Melbourne in 1891. Closing date unknown but fireworks banned in Victoria from 1974, and Australia wide from 1982"--Catalogue from the Old Paper People, Nov. 2013.
- Notes:
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- Caption title.
- Artist's signature or monogram consists of the letter M in a circle, open at the top, with two strokes like wings on either side.
- Attributed to Emile Mercier.
- POSTER 2022-5596 copy Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Phoenix Fireworks (Firm), issuing body
- Terms of Use:
- Copyright restrictions may apply.
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2051 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1981
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1959
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