![On a white ground, a photograph of a person on a motorcycle, wearing a helmet, on a curved black and yellow surface, leading to the upper right of poster. Behind, two vertical black columns forming the number eleven; To the left, three horizontal gray and blue lines. Text, in orange and yellow, above: WELL DONE!; Below, in blue and underlined in yellow: WORLD / RECORDS / [in orange and yellow] VILLIERS / [in blue] THE SIMPLEST STURDIEST / MOTORCYCLES ARE / FITTED WITH THESE / VILLIERS ENGINES.]( https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/365103_9e4b7d2067f40776_b.jpg
"On a white ground, a photograph of a person on a motorcycle, wearing a helmet, on a curved black and yellow surface, leading to the upper right of poster. Behind, two vertical black columns forming the number eleven; To the left, three horizontal gray and blue lines. Text, in orange and yellow, above: WELL DONE!; Below, in blue and underlined in yellow: WORLD / RECORDS / [in orange and yellow] VILLIERS / [in blue] THE SIMPLEST STURDIEST / MOTORCYCLES ARE / FITTED WITH THESE / VILLIERS ENGINES.")
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Poster, Well Done! 11 World Records, Villiers, ca. 1928
This is a Poster. It was designed by E. McKnight Kauffer and produced by W.S. Crawford Ltd. and made for (as the client) The Villiers Engineering Company. It is dated ca. 1928 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is lithograph on paper, lined. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Marion Dorn Kauffer.
It is credited Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- Sketch For "Water Motor Cycle" (USA), Undated
- ink and pencil on paper.
- Earl S. Tupper Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History,....
- 14.2012.173
- Motorcycle, 1299 Panigale Superleggera, 2017
- carbon fiber, titanium, sand-cast magnesium, aluminum rubber compound (tires).
- Lent by Robert M. Greenberg.
- 12.2017.26
Its dimensions are
76.1 × 50.7 cm (29 15/16 × 19 15/16 in.)
It is signed
Printed in script, in blue ink, bottom left margin: E. McK.Kauffer.
It is inscribed
Printed in blue ink, lower left: THE VILLIERS ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED, WOLVERHAMPTON.; lower right: DESIGNED & PRODUCED BY W.S. CRAWFORD LTD.
Cite this object as
Poster, Well Done! 11 World Records, Villiers, ca. 1928; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); England; lithograph on paper, lined; 76.1 × 50.7 cm (29 15/16 × 19 15/16 in.); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-75
