Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Study for a Charnaux Man’s Belt advertisement. At top half, a figure rendered in silhouette (with corset belt indicated in white), stands facing frontally, holding a second figure (rendered in black outline) horizontally above their head. The figure in the sky is surrounded by wispy clouds. Below, the advertising slogan in black text: MEN WHO CARE ABOUT HEALTH / charnaux / MAN’S BELT. Below, lines indicating a placeholder for copy.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- Charnaux Patent Corset Co. Ltd., England
- Date
- ca. 1936
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Graphite, pen and black ink on thin paper
- Dimensions
- 27 × 16.9 cm (10 5/8 × 6 5/8 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
