Clark Gable
Category
Photographs
Date
1948 - 1949
Materials
Card
Measurements
68 x 37 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520763.9
Summary
A cyanotype print cigarette card of Clark Gable issued by Turf Cigarettes. The picture is a composite image with a photographic headshot superimposed on a cartoon body. There is a double lined border around the print within which above the photograph the words: "Turf" Cigarettes and below the photograph the words: A series of 50 no.31 Inside the border, above the image: Famous Film Stars below the image: Clark Gable in "Gone with the Wind" MGM verso; in pencil: 1986.353.h
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986