C.R.Swift - '"Oxo" CUBEist - The Masterpiece', 1933

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

1983.2482

Design for Oxo advertisement in ink and watercolour by C.R. Swift entitled " "Oxo" CUBEist - The Masterpiece" showing artist at work at an easel with a steak in a frying pan cooking on a small stove in the forground. The bull's head on the painting at the easel and the steak are presumably references to the fact that Oxo is made from beef. Signed C.R.Swift bottom right, dated Nov [19]33. Handwritten note in ink on reverse reads: "Original design by Charles Robert Swift, 49 Stanhope Road, St Albans, Herts."

1933

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Amy Cooke

4) Verulamium Archive Room

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PWD Box 7.

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