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Work by George Adamson as a designer for publicity and stationery |
| Job type | Description | Client/publisher | Size | Date | Nature |
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| Advertisement |
line drawing for SHELL advt. |
Mather & Crowther |
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1969 |
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| Advertisement |
- |
Severn Advertising |
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1973 |
line |
| Advertisement |
drawing of office staff with mail for Financial Times advertisement |
DD Paperlink (Dialled Despatches Ltd., Gosport, Hants |
- |
1970s |
line |
| Bookplate |
Bookplate for his second son |
John Adamson |
- |
1978 |
line |
| Brochure |
Uncommon Market A Capriccio on Queen Square, Liverpool |
Liverpool ’66: international prestige magazine for the City of Liverpool |
p. 14 |
1966 |
line |
| Brochure |
Eye on the Ball: Article on R. Silcock & Sons Ltd., and the animal feedingstuffs industry |
Liverpool ’66 |
p. 19 |
1966 |
pen & wash |
| Brochure |
Promotional booklet on move to new premises |
Simpkins, Edwards, accountants, Exeter |
- |
1983 |
several pen and wash drawings |
| Christmas card |
design |
Time & Tide |
- |
1957 |
- |
| Christmas card |
Ballyman’s Cottage, Woodbury |
I. O. Harvie |
- |
1957 |
- |
| Christmas card |
Nativity scene with St Joseph/Infant/Our Lady, 2 shepherds 1 angel |
Medici Society Ltd |
- |
1973 |
- |
| Christmas card |
Christmas card for readers showing Father Christmas on trolley being drawn by a pantomime reindeer; nurse taking off with balloons;
sample in Vol. 72, no 50, 12/12/1976 |
Nursing Times |
- |
1976 |
4C |
| Christmas card |
Christmas Tree of cartoon figures |
Private Eye |
- |
1976 |
- |
| Christmas card |
Nostalgic card (2nd colour) & 4 jokes Comic of 1938 |
New Scientist |
- |
1978 |
- |
| Christmas card |
Father Christmas being frisked by official |
Private Eye |
- |
1980 |
- |
| Christmas card |
drawing of house |
William Hamilton |
- |
1992 |
- |
| Christmas card |
Humorous overlay of 1992 card |
William Hamilton |
- |
1992 |
- |
| Christmas card |
Sheep on the Road
(detail of painting commissioned by Punch) |
Woodmansterne
through the Bridgeman Art Library |
- |
2003 |
- |
| Greetings card |
A Collection of Cats, July 1973 (original design for WHSmith scrap-book) |
Museums & Galleries Collection |
- |
1998 |
- |
| Greetings card |
3 finished 7 x 4 1/2 full colour humorous cards |
Joseph Arnold |
- |
1972/3 |
- |
| Greetings card |
I finish 8 x 4 1/2 parcel-laden man in snow |
Joseph Arnold |
- |
1972/3 |
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| Greetings card |
2 finished |
Joseph Arnold |
- |
1972/3 |
- |
| Greetings card |
No. 34 card. snowballs at waits from inside |
J. Arthur Dixon |
- |
1973 |
- |
| Greetings card |
1. fisherman’s birthday 2. tennis player’s 21st. |
Joseph Arnold |
- |
1973 |
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| Greetings card |
London transport logo & golfer cards |
Joseph Arnold |
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1973 |
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| Greetings card |
man in hothouse; artist paints cake |
Joseph Arnold |
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1973 |
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| Greetings card |
No 13 card Big Game Hunter reads birthday card |
Joseph Arnold |
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1973 |
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| Greetings card |
Cards Nos:- 14.15.16 young man/bucket of money at well//man selects pill/dressing gown//beefeater rejects fowl & fish |
Joseph Arnold |
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1973 |
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| Greetings card |
17/18. young man starts old car with key// beer to 1 patient/blood to another |
Joseph Arnold |
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1973/4 |
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| Greetings card |
(19) postman takes cake from pillar box (20) sundial cake |
Joseph Arnold |
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1972/3 |
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| Logo design |
‘treatment’ of No 2 symbol Greek man runs |
Boekhandel Tummers, Amsterdam |
- |
1977 |
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| Packaging |
4 x 6 in. landscape sleeve for Wills 3 Castles 50’s |
Mardon Son & Hall Ltd, Colour Printing & Packaging, Temple Gate, Bristol 1 |
- |
1963 |
- |
| Poster |
Move Quietly: cat with medal round its neck that reads ‘Move Quietly’ |
for a hospital |
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c. 1962 |
line |
| Poster |
Widdecombe Fair a poster version of Adamson’s book Widdecombe Fair |
Adamson/Chambers |
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1977 |
- |
| Poster |
panel 8 x 6 ft of RAM museum front as background for costumed figure |
Royal Albert Memorial Museum |
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1968 |
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| Poster |
poster design 14 1/4 x 21 1/4 in. for Adamson exhibition/3 colour separations |
Royal Albert Memorial Museum |
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1968 |
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| Product illustration |
Trix Elevator Conveyor
Trix Model Trains |
Byrne & Woudhuysen |
- |
1954 |
- |
| Product illustration |
Trix: 6 small jobs: signals |
Byrne & Woudhuysen |
- |
1954 |
- |
| Product illustration |
Trix: conveyor (a) |
Byrne & Woudhuysen |
- |
1954 |
tone |
| Product illustration |
Trix: details of assembly instructions (b) parts |
Byrne & Woudhuysen |
- |
1954 |
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| Product illustration |
Trix: conveyor instructions |
Byrne & Woudhuysen |
- |
1954 |
- |
| Product illustration |
Trix: cover |
Byrne & Woudhuysen |
- |
1954 |
- |
| Product illustration |
Kodak handbook |
Byrne & Woudhuysen |
- |
1954 |
- |
| Product illustration |
full page and 3 chapter headings & tail p for Shell Tanker book |
Byrne & Woudhuysen |
- |
1954 |
- |
| Product illustration |
Shell. Sir F. Whittle shde |
Byrne & Woudhuysen |
- |
1954 |
tone |
| Product illustration |
Trix: 2 roughs of boy & new type train for box |
Byrne & Woudhuysen |
- |
1955 |
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| Product illustration |
Trix: Boy in colour |
Byrne & Woudhuysen |
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1955 |
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| Product illustration |
Trix: Trains & viaducts &c in black & white |
Byrne & Woudhuysen |
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1955 |
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| Product illustration |
ICI: humorous illustration for article |
Argosy |
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1954 |
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| Product illustration |
dressed chicken |
Millers (chicks) |
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1959 |
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| Product illustration |
TOTAL OIL Total topics 2 x b&w humorous |
Sally Lang |
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1983 |
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| Product illustration |
3 humorous colour smalls for magazine |
Rolls Royce |
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1985 |
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| Publishers’ publicity |
Cover for Undercover, the Thames and Hudson book news catalogue---a free promtion pubn. |
Thames & Hudson |
- |
1985 |
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| Publishers’ publicity |
jacket design for brochure Library of Folk Tales and Fairy Stories |
Ginn |
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1956 |
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| Publishers’ publicity |
Children’s book catalogue for January 1960 |
Brockhampton Press |
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1959 |
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| Publishers’ publicity |
3 small drawings for catalogue |
Jonathan Cape |
- |
Oct. 1959 |
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| Publishers’ publicity |
Children’s book catalogue for January 1961 |
Brockhampton Press |
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1960 |
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| Record and CD covers |
John Ogdon at the Piano (aquatint: see Etchings) |
Cover of William Alwyn: Fantasy - Waltzes, 12 Preludes
John Ogdon, piano
(Chandos Records ABRD 1125, also Chandos CD cover: CHAN 8399) |
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1985 |
- |
| Special commission |
line drawing of St Rita for holy function |
St Rita’s, Honiton |
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1954 |
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| Special commission |
4 x 5 ft panels for exhibition stand |
St Rita’s, Honiton |
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1955 |
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| Special commission |
St Rita in full colour |
St Rita’s, Honiton |
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1958 |
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| Special commission |
‘A Dreadful Incident at the Museum’ and other humorous drawings on Natural History Collection |
Royal Albert Memorial Museum |
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1980 |
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| Special commission |
memories of Exeter: cathedral/theatre/his room; for presentation to Digby Day on his retirement |
Friends of the Northcott Theatre, Exeter |
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1980 |
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| Special commission |
3 x Equal Opportunity, 1 x Stress |
Training Enterprise Connect |
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1992 |
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| Stationery |
Heading design for notepaper |
David Bungay |
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1956 |
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| Stationery |
A Collection of Cats
Scrap-book cover of cats set against green background |
WH Smith |
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1973 |
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| Stationery |
Heading design for notepaper |
Martin & Diana Chambers |
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1985 |
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